[Nix-dev] On a sad state of declarative containers management

[Daniel Hlynskyi]

I've collected the list of issues with containers.

Go through this list before starting using them. Declarative containers are
good, but be prepared

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Bidirectional container access -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16754

Container interface is not removed when declarative container is removed -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16330

nixos-container doesn't have restart subcommand -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16753

Error message showed in `nixos-container run` -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16639

`/etc/resolv.conf` generation broken in systemd containers -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/15164

nixos-container.pl has overly strict sanity checks -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/15089

Container does not start after switching to 16.03 -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14381

ip-up.target won't be activated in nixos-containers -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14314

containers with extraModules in host -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/13852

unable to upgrade declarative nixos container -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12396

Missing man page for nixos-container -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/10347

Installing NixOS in a container with a non-NixOS host is painful -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9884

nixos-container: wrong message for --show-trace -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/8970

A mechanism to run containers on different "channels" from their hosts -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7467

Nixos-container cannot be used without root -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6754

Indirect GC roots in containers don't work -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/2310
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