NixOS Services

Running services and containers.

Contents

• Service Patterns — Common service module patterns
• Containers and nspawn — systemd-nspawn containers
• Declarative Containers — containers.
• Libvirt and VMs — libvirtd / QEMU vs build-vm
• MicroVMs — MicroVM.nix lightweight guests
• Common Service Examples — Example service configs
• Homelab Patterns — Reverse proxy, TLS, secrets, firewall composition
• Docker and Podman — Host container runtimes