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.
Based on the [Determinate Nix Installer](https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer) and its corresponding [Nix Installer Action](https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action), responsible for over tens of thousands of Nix installs daily.
- ⚡ **Accelerated KVM** on open source projects and larger runners. See [GitHub's announcement](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-02-23-hardware-accelerated-android-virtualization-on-actions-windows-and-linux-larger-hosted-runners/) for more info.
- 🐧 Linux, x86_64, aarch64, and i686
- 🍏 macOS, x86_64 and aarch64
- 🪟 WSL2, x86_64 and aarch64
- 🐋 Containers, ARC, and Act
- 🐙 GitHub Enterprise Server
- 💁 GitHub Hosted, self-hosted, and long running Actions Runners
| `extra-conf` | Extra configuration lines for `/etc/nix/nix.conf` (includes `access-tokens` with `secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN` automatically if `github-token` is set) | | |
| `github-server-url` | The URL for the GitHub server, to use with the `github-token` token. Defaults to the current GitHub server, supporting GitHub Enterprise Server automatically. Only change this value if the provided `github-token` is for a different GitHub server than the current server. | | `${{ github.server_url }}` |
| `github-token` | A GitHub token for making authenticated requests (which have a higher rate-limit quota than unauthenticated requests) | | `${{ github.token }}` |
| `trust-runner-user` | Whether to make the runner user trusted by the Nix daemon | | `True` |
| `force-no-systemd` | Force using other methods than systemd to launch the daemon. This setting is automatically enabled when necessary. | | `False` |
| `init` | The init system to configure, requires `planner: linux-multi` (allowing the choice between `none` or `systemd`) | | |
| `kvm` | Automatically configure the GitHub Actions Runner for NixOS test supports, if the host supports it. | | `True` |
| `planner` | A planner to use | | |
| `proxy` | The proxy to use (if any), valid proxy bases are `https://$URL`, `http://$URL` and `socks5://$URL` | | |
| `reinstall` | Force a reinstall if an existing installation is detected (consider backing up `/nix/store`) | | `False` |
| `source-binary` | Run a version of the nix-installer binary from somewhere already on disk. Conflicts with all other `source-*` options. Intended only for testing this Action. | | |
| `source-branch` | The branch of `nix-installer` to use (conflicts with `source-tag`, `source-revision`, `source-pr`) | | |
| `source-pr` | The PR of `nix-installer` to use (conflicts with `source-tag`, `source-revision`, `source-branch`) | | |
| `source-revision` | The revision of `nix-installer` to use (conflicts with `source-tag`, `source-branch`, `source-pr`) | | |
| `source-tag` | The tag of `nix-installer` to use (conflicts with `source-revision`, `source-branch`, `source-pr`) | | `v3.5.1` |
| `source-url` | A URL pointing to a `nix-installer` executable | | |
| `backtrace` | The setting for `RUST_BACKTRACE` (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/backtrace/index.html#environment-variables) | | |
| `diagnostic-endpoint` | Diagnostic endpoint url where the installer sends data to. To disable set this to an empty string. | | `-` |
| `log-directives` | A list of Tracing directives, comma separated, `-`s replaced with `_` (eg. `nix_installer=trace`, see https://docs.rs/tracing-subscriber/latest/tracing_subscriber/filter/struct.EnvFilter.html#directives) | | |
| `logger` | The logger to use for install (eg. `pretty`, `json`, `full`, `compact`) | | |
| `_internal-strict-mode` | Whether to fail when any errors are thrown. Used only to test the Action; do not set this in your own workflows. | | `False` |
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