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Nothing here is\n\u003e stable, production-ready, or even guaranteed to compile. Ideas welcome.\n\n## Why both?\n\nNix and Kubernetes solve different halves of the deployment problem.\nNiphas exists because neither one alone is enough –but together they cover\neverything.\n\n**Nix already does better than containers:**\n\n- **Immutability** – every store path is content-addressed by hash, not by\n  mutable tags like `latest`.\n- **Deduplication** – granular, per-path. No 256-layer limit, no overlayfs\n  hacks.\n- **Reproducibility** – builds are pure functions. Same input, same output,\n  always.\n- **Rollback** – atomic, instant. Switch generations, done.\n- **Declarativity** – a real functional language, not YAML.\n\nOCI images add nothing here. They wrap a perfectly good closure in layers a\nregistry can't deduplicate, and throw away everything that makes Nix great.\n\n**Kubernetes does better than anything else:**\n\n- **Scheduling** – distribute workloads across hundreds of nodes.\n- **Service discovery** – DNS, Services, Endpoints, out of the box.\n- **Health checks \u0026 self-healing** – automatic restarts, liveness/readiness\n  probes.\n- **Horizontal scaling** – HPA, replica sets, cluster autoscaler.\n- **Networking** – Ingress, NetworkPolicy, service mesh integration.\n- **Observability** – Prometheus, metrics API, audit logs, tracing –the\n  entire ecosystem.\n- **Failover** – pod rescheduling, node drains, PDB –battle-tested\n  resilience at scale.\n\nMost production infrastructure today runs on Kubernetes, and for good reason.\nNo Nix-only tool replaces this.\n\n**Niphas = Nix for the build/package layer + Kubernetes for everything else.**\n\nThe OCI image is the unnecessary middleman. Remove it:\n\n```\ngit push → nix eval → build (in-cluster) → binary cache → pod mounts the closure\n```\n\nPods reference store paths directly. Nodes share a deduplicated `/nix/store`.\nManifests are rendered from Nix and delivered by your existing GitOps\n(Fleet, Argo CD – untouched). No registry, no Dockerfile, no image tags.\nKubernetes keeps doing what it does best – scheduling, networking, healing,\nscaling – on top of a package layer that actually deserves the word\n\"immutable\".\n\n## Components\n\n| Crate | Role |\n|---|---|\n| `niphas-eval` | Webhook → evaluates flakes, schedules builds as Jobs |\n| `niphas-operator` | Reconciles the `NiphasWorkload` CRD |\n| `niphas-csi` | CSI driver that mounts closures into pods |\n| `niphas-mesh` | P2P substitution of store paths between nodes |\n\n100% Rust + Nix. 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