services-flake provides declarative, composable, and reproducible services for Nix development environment, as a process-compose-flake module (based on flake-parts). Enabling users to have NixOS-like service on MacOS and Linux.

With services-flake, we aim to solve the following problems:

• Run external services like databases, Redis, etc. natively across platforms.
• Enable users to configure multiple instances of these external services.
• Provide project-specific service configuration and data isolation.

Consider a scenario where we are juggling two projects, located at ~/code/foo and ~/code/bar. The foo project integrates postgres and nginx, while bar encompasses postgres, pgAdmin, and kafka. It's crucial that the postgres data remains segregated across these projects. Additionally, the bar project is designed to facilitate multiple instances of postgres. Both projects are equipped with a flake app, streamlining the launch of their respective service stacks. Consequently, anyone using a Linux or macOS system can effortlessly clone either project and execute nix run .#services to activate the full suite of services without the need for manual configuration.

See https://community.flake.parts/services-flake/start

List of supported services is available at https://community.flake.parts/services-flake/services

Want to compare with other tools? Let us know.

See https://community.flake.parts/services-flake/guide/datadir

To discuss the project, please join our Zulip.

See https://community.flake.parts/services-flake/contributing

Thanks to the devenv project on which much of our services implementation is based on.