How We Built Devbox's Package-Version Search

Back when we first released Devbox, one of the most requested features was the ability to install specific versions of packages. This isn't something that Nix easily supports out of the box, so initially Devbox could only install the most recent versions of a package. That changed in Devbox v0.

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Breaking Through VSCode Env Restrictions with Devbox + Nix

How Devbox works around VSCode’s env restriction to setup ephemeral Nix dev environments.

Introducing Nixhub: Search Historical Versions of Nix Packages

Nixhub.io makes it easy to find and install over 400,000 package versions in the Nix Packages collection.

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Why did Nix adopt Flakes?

Learn how Nix Flakes improve the composability and reproducibility of builds in Nix and Devbox.

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Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv

Learn why having an isolated environment is useful, why setting up an environment with Direnv can be tough, and walk through an example of Direnv + Devbox for a sample NodeJS application.

Creating Nix-Powered Docker Containers with Devbox

Our philosophy is to ensure that Devbox is compatible with existing workflows. Learn how you can integrate our Nix-powered dev environments with your container-based workflows.

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Find and Install Nix Packages by Version with Devbox

Our latest release of Devbox includes one of our most requested features – the ability to find and install specific versions of Nix packages. This feature makes it easier than ever to build the exact Nix-based development environment that you need for your project.

Using Nix Flakes with Devbox

In Devbox 0.4.7, we added support for installing packages from Nix flakes. For power users of Nix, this provides more flexibility and customization for your Devbox project. Using the power of flakes, developers can now create their own packages, modify nixpkgs, or install packages from sources outside of

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Devbox 0.4.7: Services 2.0 + Flake Support

Define custom services and import package from Flakes with Devbox 0.4.7

Devbox 0.4.3: Powered by Flakes

With Devbox 0.4.3, we've fully shifted our environment generation from using standard Nix expressions to using Nix Flakes, a new experimental feature in the Nix ecosystem. While this is mostly a behind the scenes change to Devbox, we're excited about the potential this unlocks, and we wanted to

Devbox 0.4: Devbox Global, Unified Env, and more

This release adds a few major new features to Devbox: * Devbox Global lets you add packages to include across all your Devbox Shells * Improved Shell Env ensures better consistency in your Devbox environment across shells and commands Devbox Global Our customers tell us that while they love Devbox's isolated, reproducible

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Announcing Devbox Cloud

Low latency development environments on the cloud powered by Nix, now available for free in open beta.

Devbox 0.2.0: Automatic Nix Installer, Plugins, and Background Services

We are pleased to announce our end of the year release, Devbox 0.2.0.  This release is one of our biggest yet, packed with features designed to help developers get up and running with Nix based dev environments. Some of the features included in this release are: 1. Automatic

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Do Repeat Yourself: Global Packages Considered Harmful

We took the convenience of virtual environments, the UX of npm, and the immutability of NixOS to create this magical local-like experience with Devbox.

Announcing Launchpad

Today, we're announcing the open-source release of Launchpad, a new CLI tool for deploying applications and scheduled tasks on Kubernetes. Launchpad provides a Heroku-like deployment experience on any cluster. Users can build, publish, and deploy cloud applications in one step without writing pages of Kubernetes config. We're also announcing the

Devbox vs Docker: Lightweight, repeatable dev environments without container woes

TLDR; At Jetpack.io, our Docker development container initialization script used to be like this: image: ubuntu:22.04 ... # Install Go. wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://golang.org/dl/go1.19.linux-amd64.tar.gz -O go.tar.gz sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go.tar.gz echo "export

Devbox: build your Docker image from `scratch`

How we created Devbox to solve our Docker dev environment woes at Jetpack.io

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Devbox 0.0.5: Node + PHP Support, Init Hooks, and more

We're pleased to announce the latest release of Devbox! In addition to various bug fixes and workflow improvements requested by the community, this release focused on adding support for 2 of our most requested languages: NodeJS and PHP. If you already have the Devbox CLI, it should automatically update to

Devbox 0.0.4 is released!

We’re excited to showcase the next release of Devbox with important fixes and new features. We’re overwhelmed by the community support and interest in this project, so this release also includes important fixes contributed by you. If you'd like to add new features to Devbox, we welcome Pull

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Devbox 📦 : Instant, easy, and predictable shells and containers

What is it? Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers. You start by defining the list of packages required by your development environment, and devbox uses that definition to create an isolated environment just for your application. In practice, Devbox works similar to

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Deploy a C# & .NET Core Website to Kubernetes in 5 Minutes with Launchpad by Jetpack.io

Deploying to Kubernetes is Hard Maybe you can relate: We've finished coding a website, and we're ready to deploy. We know we want to deploy to Kubernetes, to take advantage of it's industrial-scale hosting, automatic load-balancing, fault tolerance, scaling, and more. But deploying to Kubernetes is hard. Now we have

Horizontally Scaling Your Service with Kubernetes Pods

Your app is starting to pick up and get traffic! When you first launch, traffic is usually slow and it’s totally fine to have everything on one machine at the beginning. As you grow and more people hear about your application, traffic starts to get spikier and you have

Using Python and Kubernetes for Cron Jobs

Another day, another manual database cleanup. It’s not that it’s hard to do, it’s worse, it’s boring and tedious. Why not take the software developer’s way out and spend some time to find a way to automate the solution? Using Python, Kubernetes, and Cron Jobs

Python Coroutines and the Cloud

If you commonly use Python, you’ve probably noticed one of the biggest disadvantages of the language, it has no true parallelism. Python’s Global Interpreter Lock [https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock] (GIL) prevents true parallelism. However, we can achieve a level of concurrency and virtual parallel computing using

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You Don't Need Kubernetes, You Need an Application Framework

A Platform for Platforms Since becoming the industry standard, Kubernetes continues to draw controversy on whether it's the right solution for rapidly growing startups. Some developers argue that it only makes sense for Google-scale companies, while others happily use it for personal, small scale projects. Both sides are right. Kubernetes