Docker is not only about dependency management. It also offers service “composing”, via docker compose, and network isolation for each service.
Although I personally love Nix, and I run NixOS on some of my servers, I do not believe it can replace Docker/Podman. Unless you go the NixOS Containers route.
Dev containers have been dead for a long time.
https://youtu.be/0YBWhSNTgV8?feature=shared
Docker is not only about dependency management. It also offers service “composing”, via
docker compose
, and network isolation for each service.Although I personally love Nix, and I run NixOS on some of my servers, I do not believe it can replace Docker/Podman. Unless you go the NixOS Containers route.