How do I run a docker container declaratively on nixos server ? I am trying to run whoogle on a nix server and I don't wish to manually restart the whoogle container everytime I restart the server.

CodePudding user response：

1. Use --restart always with docker command at initial start

2. enable docker service to start at boot

And your container will start at boot

CodePudding user response：

After bit of guidance from the r/nixos community settled with this.

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

let
  host = "mydomain";
in
{
  virtualisation = {
    podman = {
      enable = true;
      dockerCompat = true;
    };
    oci-containers = {
      backend = "podman";
      containers.whoogle-search = {
        image = "benbusby/whoogle-search";
        autoStart = true;
        ports = [ "8080:5000" ]; #server locahost : docker localhost
      };
    };
  };
  services.nginx.virtualHosts = {
    "search.${host}" = {
      enableACME = true;
      forceSSL = true;
      locations."/".proxyPass = "http://localhost:8080";
    };
  };
}