Welcome to nix.dev
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.. topic:: **Introduction**

   The Nix ecosystem is a DevOps toolkit to achieve:

   - :ref:`Reproducible development environments <declarative-reproducible-envs>`.
   - Easy installation of software over URLs.
   - Easy transfer of software environments between computers.
   - :ref:`Declarative specification of Linux machines <deploying-nixos-using-terraform>`.
   - :ref:`Reproducible integration testing using virtual machines <integration-testing-vms>`. 
   - Avoidance of version conflicts with already installed software.
   - Installing software from source code.
   - :ref:`Transparent build caching using binary caches <github-actions>`.
   - Strong support for software auditability.
   - :ref:`First-class cross compilation support <cross-compilation>`.
   - Remote builds.
   - Remote deployments.
   - Atomic upgrades and rollbacks.

   This documentation supplements the official `Nix <http://nixos.org/nix/manual/>`_,
   `NixOS <http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/>`_, `Nixpkgs <http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/>`_
   and `NixOps <http://nixos.org/nixops/manual/>`_ manuals.


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   tutorials/index.rst
   templates/index.rst
   anti-patterns/index.rst
   reference/index.rst
   faq.rst
   recommended-reading.rst
   influences.rst
   glossary.rst