Helvinix: The Victorian Deck

A deck of 52 infra services. Straights, Flushes, Full Houses, play your cards. Hand-crafted by Helvilette. Maintained by a black cat.

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The Deck (Cards of Helvinix)

• Hearts (Identity & Access): E.g., keycloak
• Diamonds (Data & Storage): E.g., garage (S3)
• Clubs (Compute & Execution): Drawing soon...
• Spades (Routing & Proxy): Drawing soon...

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Before you start

It is best to setup a cache server first since you may have to trial-and-error many times to customize the .nix files.

Prerequisites

• nix with flakes enabled
• docker (Docker Engine) available

Hence, we will setup a caching infrastructure:

make setup-cache

This will start an NCPS (Nix Cache Proxy Server) at localhost:8501. Try to build any card inside deck to verify it is working. (To use the cache, add --extra-substituters "http://localhost:8501" to your Nix commands).