# Remote Development Environments Powered by Nix

- Institution: CERN
- Speaker: Avikant Srivastava
- Year: 2026
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3025746)
- Licence: [CERN](https://copyright.web.cern)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

mecha-nix (mnix) is a lightweight open-source remote development tool built around the power of Nix flakes, allowing developers to create fully reproducible and declarative development environments on remote servers. Using Python, SSH, and Podman, mnix lets developers work from thin-and-light laptops while remotely provisioning consistent environments with all dependencies managed through Nix. It provides simple commands for launching shells, rebuilding environments, synchronizing workspaces, and executing commands remotely in containerized development environments.

00:00:00 Slide 1

00:00:33 Slide 2

00:01:58 Slide 3

00:02:11 Slide 4

00:02:28 Slide 5

00:02:49 Slide 6

00:03:11 Slide 7

00:04:12 Slide 8

00:04:59 Slide 9

00:05:16 Slide 10

00:06:28 Slide 11

00:06:46 Slide 12

00:09:27 Slide 13

00:10:18 Slide 14

## Lectures

1. [Remote Development Environments Powered by Nix](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3025746/8d6a903d4eb2), 11 min (CERN's player)