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| author | Vincent Ambo <tazjin@google.com> | 2019-07-30T12·35+0100 |
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| committer | Vincent Ambo <github@tazj.in> | 2019-07-30T12·42+0100 |
| commit | 4802727408b7afeb8b5245e698053a700ebf6775 (patch) | |
| tree | a1a2b83933cdee60dab3434f55109239cfee1703 | |
| parent | 9753df9255552b8e37aace321717262919696da3 (diff) | |
docs(static): Update index page with post-launch information
Points people at the repository and removes some outdated information.
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/nixery/static/index.html | 69 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/tools/nixery/static/index.html b/tools/nixery/static/index.html index 908fb3821a69..8cbda7360ef9 100644 --- a/tools/nixery/static/index.html +++ b/tools/nixery/static/index.html @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ padding: 010px } + .logo { + max-width: 650px; + } + h1, h2, h3 { line-height: 1.2 } @@ -21,56 +25,55 @@ </head> <body> <header> - <h1>Nixery</h1> + <div align="center"> + <img class="logo" src="nixery-logo.png"> + </div> <aside>ad-hoc container images - powered by <a href="https://nixos.org/nix/">Nix</a></aside> + <hr> </header> - <h3>What is this?</h3> + <p> - Nixery provides the ability to pull ad-hoc container images from a Docker-compatible registry - server. The image names specify the contents the image should contain, which are then - retrieved and built by the Nix package manager. + This is an instance + of <a href="https://github.com/google/nixery">Nixery</a>, which + provides the ability to pull ad-hoc container images from a + Docker-compatible registry server. The image names specify the + contents the image should contain, which are then retrieved and + built by the Nix package manager. </p> <p> - Nix is also responsible for the creation of the container images themselves. To do this it - uses an interesting layering strategy described in + Nix is also responsible for the creation of the container images + themselves. To do this it uses an interesting layering strategy + described in <a href="https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images">this blog post</a>. </p> <h3>How does it work?</h3> <p> - Simply point your local Docker installation (or other compatible registry client) at Nixery - and ask for an image with the contents you desire. Image contents are path separated in the - name, so for example if you needed an image that contains a shell and <code>emacs</code> you - could pull it as such: + Simply point your local Docker installation (or other compatible + registry client) at Nixery and ask for an image with the + contents you desire. Image contents are path separated in the + name, so for example if you needed an image that contains a + shell and <code>emacs</code> you could pull it as such: </p> <p> <code>nixery.appspot.com/shell/emacs25-nox</code> </p> <p> - Image tags are currently <i>ignored</i>. Every package name needs to correspond to a key in the + Image tags are currently ignored. Every package name needs to + correspond to a key in the <a href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix">nixpkgs package set</a>. </p> <p> - There are some special <i>meta-packages</i> which you <strong>must</strong> specify as the - first package in an image. These are: - </p> - <ul> - <li><code>shell</code>: Provides default packages you would expect in an interactive environment</li> - <li><code>builder</code>: Provides the above as well as Nix's standard build environment</li> - </ul> - <p> - Hence if you needed an interactive image with, for example, <code>htop</code> installed you - could run <code>docker run -ti nixery.appspot.com/shell/htop bash</code>. + The special meta-package <i>shell </i> provides default packages + you would expect in an interactive environment (such as an + interactively configured bash). If you use this package + you <b>must</b> specify it as the first package in an image. </p> <h3>FAQ</h3> - <p> - Technically speaking none of these are frequently-asked questions (because no questions have - been asked so far), but I'm going to take a guess at a few anyways: - </p> <ul> <li> <strong>Where is the source code for this?</strong> <br> - Not yet public, sorry. Check back later(tm). + Over <a href="https://github.com/google/nixery">on Github</a>. </li> <li> <strong>Which revision of <code>nixpkgs</code> is used?</strong> @@ -78,17 +81,17 @@ Nixery imports a Nix channel via <code>builtins.fetchTarball</code>. Currently the channel to which this instance is pinned is NixOS 19.03. + </li> + <li> + <strong>Is this an official Google project?</strong> <br> - One idea I've had is to let users specify tags on images that - correspond to commits in nixpkgs, however there is some - potential for abuse there (e.g. by triggering lots of builds - on commits that have broken Hydra builds) and I don't want to - deal with that yet. + <strong>No.</strong> Nixery is not officially supported by + Google. </li> <li> <strong>Who made this?</strong> <br> - <a href="https://twitter.com/tazjin">@tazjin</a> + <a href="https://github.com/tazjin">tazjin</a> </li> </ul> </body> |