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First Blog

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Sven Ziegler
Sven Ziegler
Co-Creator of Iglu

This blog post introduces the first two part of the Iglu Suite, the Iglu-Cache and Iglu-Builder.

Iglu Cache​

We are happy to announce the Iglu-Cache! The cache is the first component which is near production state! It is mostly cachix compatible and has builtin deduplication. Each cache instance can host multiple tenants (caches). Additionally you can choose from two storage backends and two databases.

Databases​

Iglu-Cache supports two database types

and Cloudflare D1 is planned.

Storage​

To make the storage as flexible as possible we provide two storage backends

  • Filesystem to store the data directly on the host machine
  • S3 to make the storage more scalable for bigger environments

Deployment​

The deployment can be done via Docker or a NixOS-Module. How to start is detailed here

Iglu Builder​

The second announcement we have is the Iglu-Builder. It builds nix-derivations and pushes the results to any Cachix compatible cache (not just Iglu). The build process can be monitored through a websocket.

You can download the flake to build either manually or the builder can clone a git repository for you.