Earlier this month I mentioned on Mastodon that I was replacing a Docker-based local development environment at my day job with a Nix-based one, orchestrated with overmind and a justfile.

There was quite a lot of interest in particular in how overmind and just could be used to replace a container / compose-based local development.

While I can’t share the details of the significantly more complex migration I did at my day job (yet! - I’m working internally on trying to find a way that we can disseminate the learnings publicly), I can share a simplified real-world example that I use for developing Notado.