# Determinate Systems

> Our goal for Determinate is to enable fearless innovation by bringing Nix to teams, providing a complete Nix-based workflow from installation through collaboration and CI to deployment.

Determinate is Nix for teams: Stop wrestling with binary caches, reinventing deploy scripts, and figuring out access controls. Confidently adopt and scale Nix across teams of any size.

## Blog posts

Posts from [our blog](https://determinate.systems/blog), in reverse chronological order:

- [Changelog: introducing `nix nario`](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-3120) (October 31, 2025)
- [Determinate Nix: the recent past and the shining future](https://determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-recap) (September 23, 2025)
- [Dropping upstream Nix from Determinate Nix Installer](https://determinate.systems/blog/installer-dropping-upstream) (September 10, 2025)
- [Parallel evaluation comes to Determinate Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-3111) (September 5, 2025)
- [Changelog: build-time flake inputs and unauthenticated upgrades](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-390) (August 27, 2025)
- [Changelog: Determinate now has a nix-darwin module, plus loads of performance perks](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-386) (August 22, 2025)
- [Changelog: a native Linux builder for macOS](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-384) (August 5, 2025)
- [Changelog: Determinate Nix 3.8.1 with important security updates](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-381) (July 12, 2025)
- [Changelog: a faster `nix flake check`, improved flake locks, and lazy trees rolled out to 20% of users](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-380) (July 11, 2025)
- [Changelog: faster CI, deep flake overrides, and a better `nix store delete` in Determinate Nix 3.7.0](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-370) (July 4, 2025)
- [Changelog: lazy trees and security improvements](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-367) (June 24, 2025)
- [FlakeHub now supports Semaphore CI](https://determinate.systems/blog/semaphore-ci) (June 19, 2025)
- [Changelog: macOS Tahoe, lazy trees, and docs in Determinate Nix 3.6.6](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-366) (June 18, 2025)
- [Bringing back the Magic Nix Cache Action](https://determinate.systems/blog/bringing-back-magic-nix-cache-action) (June 13, 2025)
- [Changelog: docs, diagnostics, and resilience improvements](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-362) (June 5, 2025)
- [Changelog: improved support for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-improved-self-hosted-determinate-nix-action) (May 29, 2025)
- [Determinate Nix Action](https://determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-action) (May 28, 2025)
- [Changelog: introducing lazy trees](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-352) (May 15, 2025)
- [Changelog: deprecating channels and indirect flake references](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-342) (May 6, 2025)
- [Changelog: JSON logging, a new experience around hash mismatches, and more](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-331) (April 16, 2025)
- [Best practices for Nix at work](https://determinate.systems/blog/best-practices-for-nix-at-work) (March 24, 2025)
- [Determinate Nix 3.0](https://determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-30) (March 5, 2025)
- [Fetch artifacts directly from FlakeHub Cache using `fh fetch`](https://determinate.systems/blog/fh-fetch) (February 26, 2025)
- [Introducing Determinate AMIs for NixOS](https://determinate.systems/blog/nixos-amis) (February 24, 2025)
- [Changelog: version synchronization to 0.37.1](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-0371) (February 21, 2025)
- [Determinate is now compatible with nix-darwin](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-darwin-updates) (February 19, 2025)
- [Changelog: improved nix-darwin support for Determinate!](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-033) (February 18, 2025)
- [Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths](https://determinate.systems/blog/resolved-store-paths) (February 12, 2025)
- [Supercharging Nix deployments with FlakeHub Cache](https://determinate.systems/blog/home-manager-deployments-with-fh) (January 24, 2025)
- [End of life for the free tier of the Magic Nix Cache](https://determinate.systems/blog/magic-nix-cache-free-tier-eol) (January 21, 2025)
- [Changelog: customer binding, nix.conf, and yanked Nix 2.25.4](https://determinate.systems/blog/changelog-determinate-nix-030) (January 14, 2025)
- [Determinate Nix now supports migrating from other caches](https://determinate.systems/blog/flakehub-cache-migration) (December 18, 2024)
- [The future of software is Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/the-future-is-nix) (October 25, 2024)
- [Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes](https://determinate.systems/blog/flakehub-cache-and-private-flakes) (October 23, 2024)
- [Announcing Determinate Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/announcing-determinate-nix) (October 21, 2024)
- [Discontinuing support for macOS Monterey](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-installer-macos-12-monterey) (October 9, 2024)
- [Fully automated Nix installation for macOS on AWS EC2](https://determinate.systems/blog/unattended-nix-install-macos-aws-ec2) (October 1, 2024)
- [Solving corporate TLS certificates for Nix on macOS](https://determinate.systems/blog/zscaler-macos-and-nix-on-corporate-networks) (September 27, 2024)
- [Prepare Nix for macOS Sequoia](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-support-for-macos-sequoia) (September 13, 2024)
- [Discontinuing support for i686-linux in the Determinate Nix Installer](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-installer-i686-linux) (July 24, 2024)
- [Parallel Nix evaluation](https://determinate.systems/blog/parallel-nix-eval) (June 27, 2024)
- [Nix as a WebAssembly build tool](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-wasm) (June 13, 2024)
- [On community in Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/on-community-in-nix) (April 26, 2024)
- [Introducing FlakeHub Cache](https://determinate.systems/blog/flakehub-cache-beta) (March 13, 2024)
- [KVM on GitHub Actions](https://determinate.systems/blog/kvm-on-github-actions) (November 29, 2023)
- [A graphical installer for Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/graphical-nix-installer) (November 24, 2023)
- [Lessons from 1 million Nix Installs](https://determinate.systems/blog/lessons-from-1-million-nix-installs) (November 7, 2023)
- [Nix Survival Mode: sheltering Nix from macOS upgrades](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-survival-mode-on-macos) (October 25, 2023)
- [FlakeHub updates: lightning-fast mirroring and webhook integrations](https://determinate.systems/blog/flakehub-updates) (October 6, 2023)
- [Creating and modifying flakes using the FlakeHub CLI](https://determinate.systems/blog/fh-updates) (September 20, 2023)
- [Experimental does not mean unstable](https://determinate.systems/blog/experimental-does-not-mean-unstable) (September 6, 2023)
- [`fh`: the CLI for FlakeHub](https://determinate.systems/blog/flakehub-cli) (September 1, 2023)
- [Flake schemas: making flake outputs extensible](https://determinate.systems/blog/flake-schemas) (August 31, 2023)
- [Introducing FlakeHub](https://determinate.systems/blog/introducing-flakehub) (August 22, 2023)
- [Instrumenting Axum projects](https://determinate.systems/blog/instrumenting-axum) (July 20, 2023)
- [Introducing the Magic Nix Cache](https://determinate.systems/blog/magic-nix-cache) (June 26, 2023)
- [Introducing the Nix Flake Checker](https://determinate.systems/blog/flake-checker) (June 20, 2023)
- [Declarative GNOME configuration with NixOS](https://determinate.systems/blog/declarative-gnome-configuration-with-nixos) (June 1, 2023)
- [Packaging Open Policy Agent policies with Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/open-policy-agent) (May 22, 2023)
- [Extending NixOS configurations](https://determinate.systems/blog/extending-nixos-configurations) (March 31, 2023)
- [Nuenv: an experimental Nushell environment for Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/nuenv) (March 28, 2023)
- [Moving stuff around with Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/moving-stuff-around-with-nix) (March 22, 2023)
- [Introducing the Determinate Nix Installer](https://determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-installer) (February 27, 2023)
- [Introducing Zero To Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/zero-to-nix) (January 23, 2023)
- [Nix on the Steam Deck](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-on-the-steam-deck) (December 21, 2022)
- [Deploying Nix-built containers to Kubernetes](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-to-kubernetes) (November 21, 2022)
- [Streamline your GitHub Actions dependencies using Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-github-actions) (October 31, 2022)
- [Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick](https://determinate.systems/blog/qemu-fix) (October 13, 2022)
- [Using Nix to run software with no installation steps](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-run) (October 7, 2022)
- [An invitation to Rust maintainers](https://determinate.systems/blog/riff-rust-maintainers) (October 5, 2022)
- [Effortless dev environments with Nix and direnv](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-direnv) (September 23, 2022)
- [Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix](https://determinate.systems/blog/nix-home-env) (September 15, 2022)
- [Introducing Riff](https://determinate.systems/blog/introducing-riff) (September 6, 2022)
- [We want to make Nix better](https://determinate.systems/blog/we-want-to-make-nix-better) (September 2, 2022)
- [How to Use Hydra as your Deployment Source of Truth](https://determinate.systems/blog/hydra-deployment-source-of-truth) (October 14, 2021)
- [Announcing: Terraform Provider Hydra](https://determinate.systems/blog/terraform-provider-hydra) (May 17, 2021)

## Projects

These other projects under the Determinate Systems umbrella have their own LLM-oriented manifests (below are links to the respective `llms.txt` files):

### [Zero to Nix](https://zero-to-nix.com/llms.txt)

Zero to Nix is a flake-centric resource for learning Nix created by Determinate Systems.

### [Determinate documentations](https://docs.determinate.systems/llms.txt)

Determinate is the best way to use Nix on macOS, WSL, and Linux. It is an end-to-end toolchain for using Nix, from installation to collaboration to deployment.

### [FlakeHub](https://flakehub.com/llms.txt)

FlakeHub is a platform for publishing and discovering Nix flakes and Nix artifacts, featuring semantic versioning, private flakes with federated, JWT-based authentication, flake discovery via search, labels, and other means, and next-generation Nix binary caching with FlakeHub Cache.

## Products

Our commercial offerings for enterprise Nix users:

- [Determinate Nix: business-class Nix for critical infrastructure](https://determinate.systems/nix)
- [FlakeHub: privately share and cache flakes across your team](https://flakehub.com)
- [FlakeHub Cache: a powerful new binary caching concept for Nix with federated authentication](https://docs.determinate.systems/flakehub/cache)

## Open source projects

- [Determinate Nix Installer](https://determinate.systems/oss/nix-installer)
- [Nix](https://determinate.systems/oss/nix)
- [Magic Nix Cache](https://determinate.systems/oss/magic-nix-cache)
- [Zero to Nix](https://determinate.systems/oss/zero-to-nix)
- [FlakeHub CLI](https://determinate.systems/oss/flakehub-cli)
- [Nix Flake Checker](https://determinate.systems/oss/flake-checker)
- [Update Nix Flake Lock](https://determinate.systems/oss/update-flake-lock)

## Webinars

- [Nix flakes in practice: what they solve and why they matter](https://luma.com/995nq98k)
- [How Determinate Systems uses Nix](https://luma.com/pslnr81l)
- [Nix at enterprise scale with Determinate](https://luma.com/748lhhfx)
- [Inside Determinate Nix: the best way to Nix at work](https://luma.com/ppcgnfdy)
- [Seamless Nix deployments with FlakeHub](https://luma.com/ncdrlhd5)
- [Up and running with FlakeHub Cache](https://luma.com/ouooinmw)
- [Best practices for Nix at work](https://luma.com/87xuszxp)

## Other formats

Additional LLM-oriented manifests for this site:

- [`llms-small.txt`](https://determinate.systems/llms-small.txt) (compact structure-only version)
- [`llms-full.txt`](https://determinate.systems/llms-full.txt) (complete content in one file)