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Proof-of-concept Docker image building of multiple packages, with Nix
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| { pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, name, packages ? {}}: | |
| with pkgs; | |
| let | |
| # We need bash and coreutils to display the container "run" message; | |
| # dockerTools.buildImage expects a list of derivations, not a set | |
| required = { inherit bash coreutils; }; | |
| contents = builtins.attrValues (required // packages); | |
| prettyPrint = import ./prettyPrint.nix {}; | |
| in dockerTools.buildImage { | |
| inherit name contents; | |
| config = { | |
| Cmd = [ "${bash}/bin/bash" "-c" '' | |
| ( ${coreutils}/bin/cat | ${coreutils}/bin/fmt -s ) >&2 <<EOF | |
| This is the "${name}" container, containing the following software: | |
| ${prettyPrint packages} | |
| Execute these tools explicitly from within the container, rather than running the container itself. | |
| EOF | |
| '' ]; | |
| }; | |
| } |
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| let | |
| pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {}; | |
| buildContainer = import ./buildContainer.nix; | |
| in buildContainer { | |
| name = "bionix-poc"; | |
| packages = with pkgs; { inherit samtools bwa; }; | |
| } |
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| # Pretty printer for package/derivation sets | |
| { bullet ? "*", recSep ? "\n", emptyText ? "<No packages installed>" }: | |
| packageSet: | |
| with builtins; | |
| let | |
| # Pretty printer for derivations | |
| ppDrv = drv: | |
| let parsed = parseDrvName drv.name; | |
| in "${bullet} ${parsed.name} v${parsed.version}"; | |
| # Extract derivations from set | |
| packages = attrValues packageSet; | |
| isEmpty = length packages == 0; | |
| in if isEmpty | |
| then emptyText | |
| else concatStringsSep recSep (map ppDrv packages) |
Rather than using ociTools, we can create Singularity images with:
singularity build my-image.sif docker-archive:$(nix-build)
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This is a proof-of-concept allowing the building of Docker containers with Nix containing multiple, independent packages. The packages we install are from NixPkgs, for simplicity, but they can easily be our own derivations... Why have I never used Nix until now!!