This image contains an installation of the Nix package manager.
Use this build to create your own customized images as follows:
FROM nixos/nix
RUN nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable nixpkgs
RUN nix-channel --update
RUN nix-build -A pythonFull '<nixpkgs>'
Limitations
By default sandboxing is turned off inside the container, even though it is enabled in new installations of nix. This can lead to differences between derivations built inside a docker container versus those built without any containerization, especially if a derivation relies on sandboxing to block sideloading of dependencies.
To enable sandboxing the container has to be started with the
--privileged
flag and sandbox = true set in /etc/nix/nix.conf.
