
The command nixos-container can now create containers. For instance, the following creates and starts a container named ‘database’: $ nixos-container create database The configuration of the container is stored in /var/lib/containers/<name>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix. After editing the configuration, you can make the changes take effect by doing $ nixos-container update database The container can also be destroyed: $ nixos-container destroy database Containers are now executed using a template unit, ‘container@.service’, so the unit in this example would be ‘container@database.service’.
*** NixOS *** NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the purely functional package management system Nix. More information can be found at http://nixos.org/nixos and in the manual in doc/manual.