Flox

Build & share dev environments from 100k+ software packages

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Build & share dev environments from 100k+ software packages

318 followers

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Automation tools

Flox empowers you to build quickly, easily creating reproducible, cross-platform development or application environments—without containers. Based on a simple declarative framework, Flox enables transparent access to all the resources on your system.

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Tines The single, secure environment for agents, apps, and automations.

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Workplan

Congratulations on the launch! How does Flox compare to Nix?

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2yr ago

Flox

Maker

@amir_shevat1 Nix is at the core of Flox, and none of our achievements would be possible without the amazing community. The nixpkgs repository alone has contributions from over 6,000 individuals, making the concept of having over 100,000 packages a reality. Nix is meant to always be open to a wide variety of use cases, needs, and very much green field, covering use cases from making builds reproducible to running in space. Flox provides a product that brings out parts of the most meaningful Nix based principles to any developer and enterprise. Providing a golden motion that is simple yet powerful and focusing on enterprise needs in the process. When we first started we had a moto of "Bringing Nix to Work". This is a blog we wrote a few weeks back but covers some of the points as well - https://flox.dev/blog/flox-why-w...

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2yr ago

Interesting idea, but how does it handle security from the supply chain side?

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2yr ago

Flox

Maker

@raman_raghav Flox is deterministic by construction. Keeping exact locked references of software that's running. As we enhance Flox in the future, we plan to leverage that deterministic behavior in a database against known vulnerabilities and help security teams manage their environments and make sure they are up to date. You can also run Flox "unlocked" and when you do this, you roll to the latest versions of software daily and get immediate feedback when something goes wrong.

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2yr ago

Congrats on the launch! This is a gift for everyone who struggles with an inconsistent SDLC.

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2yr ago

Flox

Maker

@roland_lau1 Thanks Roland! We are super excited about what we've seen so far with a bunch of different flows.

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2yr ago

Dive

Congrats on 1.1! Excited to see the fast-paced development. I <3 production-grade Nix

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2yr ago

Flox

Maker

@max_g_satter thanks Max!

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2yr ago

Flox

Maker

@max_g_satter Thanks!

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2yr ago

OpenSauced

Nix is an amazing tool. Excited to see Flox expand on this vision.

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2yr ago

Flox

Maker

@bdougieyo Thank you for the kind words, Brian!

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2yr ago

Flox

Maker

@bdougieyo Means a lot coming from you!!

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2yr ago

Congrats on the launch! I'm curious about how Flox integrates with existing CI/CD pipelines—any thoughts on best practices?

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2yr ago

Flox

Maker

@memphys_sk Thank you! Flox aims to provide the same consistent development experience in both Continuous Integration and local development. Today you can use Flox in CI and get the same environment you do locally. It's also possible to use Continuous Deployment on those environments for interpreted languages. We'll be working on ways to make this even easier and support CD for compiled languages in the future.

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2yr ago

Well done everyone and thanks for all the improvements in 1.1 !!!

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2yr ago

Flox

Maker

@etorreborre We appreciate all your support, Eric!

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2yr ago

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