Portable, Isolated Dev Environments on any Machine

Devbox creates isolated, reproducible development environments that run anywhere. No Docker containers or Nix lang required

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Reproducible development environments wherever you go

Share your dev environment with your team, and run your project on any machine with the exact same packages and configuration

Isolated, Local Shells on any Machine

Start by defining a list of packages and scripts for your project, and Devbox builds an isolated dev environment. No Docker or virtual machines required.

100,000+ packages, powered by Nix

Devbox provides an approachable, intuitive interface for creating development environments with the Nix Package Manager, without the Nix language

Open Source and Community Driven

Devbox is an open-source project built by Jetify with support from the community. Join the core team and thousands of developers who love Devbox

How Devbox Works

devbox shell

Run your project in an isolated development shell

Just add the packages you need and start a Devbox shell. All your dependencies and packages in an isolated, ephemeral environment

Install over 400,000 package versions

Devbox provides a searchable index of over 400,000 versions of 80,000 packages powered by Nix, meaning you can find the exact package that you need

Isolated and reproducible development shells

Install multiple runtime and package versions on a single machine without Docker or a VM. Use your default tools and settings with no extra config.

Configure portable dev environments with an intuitive JSON config

Devbox creates an isolated development environment based on your devbox.json in one step. No Dockerfiles or Nix required

The same packages on any machine

Devbox lets you install and synchronize environments across your machines using Git. Eliminate developer onboarding and code from anywhere

Compose environments with Devbox Plugins

Share config and packages between projects with Devbox Plugins. Automate package config so developers can start coding instantly

Create your Dev Environment with Devbox

devbox.json

{
  "packages": [
    "python@3.10",
    "poetry@latest"
  ],
  "shell": {
    "init_hook": [
      "poetry install"
    ],
    "scripts": {
      "start": "poetry run python -m main.py",
      "test": "poetry run pytest"
    }
  }, 
  "include": [
    "github:my-org/mongodb"
  ]
}

devbox services up

Automate and scripts and services across your dev environment.

Devbox can do more than just bundle packages. You can also define and share scripts, services, and entire runbooks with a single JSON config

Orchestrate and manage services without Docker

Devbox can define and run your project's services with process-compose. Spin up your entire dev environment with a single command

Automate tasks within your shell or CI/CD

Devbox makes it easy to run scripts and tasks within the context of your shell. Run tasks in the same reproducible dev environment, locally or on your CI/CD system.

Learn how to Configure Devbox Services

Reproducible, fast CI/CD environments on Github Actions with Devbox

Using Devbox keeps your CI/CD and development environments in sync and reproducible and fast.

One Action to setup your project on GHA

Use our Devbox Install Action to automatically configure Devbox, and install your packages. Your dev and CI environments will never diverge again.

Automatically Cache your Nix Store in CI

Devbox can cache your Nix store automatically with the Github Actions Cache, so your environment setup is almost instantaneous.

Add Devbox to your Github Actions Workflow

devbox-workflow.yml

name: Test with Devbox

on: push
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Install devbox
        uses: jetify-com/devbox-install-action@v0.9.0
        with: 
          enable_cache: 'true'

      - name: Run a Test Script
        run: devbox run test

Export and run your project as a devcontainer or cloud dev env.

Your Devbox projects are fully portable, meaning you can run them locally, in a containerized environment, or on Jetify Devspace

Instant cloud based Dev Environments

Spin up your project in the cloud with Jetify Devspace. Try out Devspace using one of our Templates for free.

Export Dockerfiles or Devcontainers

Easily generate a container for your project, so you can run your dev environment on any platform that supports Docker containers.

Accelerate your Team with Jetify Cloud

Launch your projects as autoscaling services with Jetify Cloud

Jetify Cloud can deploy your Devbox project as an autoscaling web service. Define your project with either Devbox or Docker, and ship directly from Github.

Manage secrets across your shells

Jetify Secrets provides easy and secure Secrets Management that automatically works with your Devbox Shells and Jetify Deploys.

Share builds with Jetify Nix Package Caches

Jetify's Private and Prebuilt Caches can share binaries and packages across all your projects and deployments. Stop rebuilding and start shipping

Dev Environments for any Language

Get started with Devbox using one of our example projects. Get an isolated Python, NodeJS, Ruby, or Golang dev environment up and running on any operating system, or deploy a full Rails, PHP + Postgres, or Jekyll application anywhere

EVERYTHING YOU NEED

Trusted by Thousands of Developers

Devbox is trusted by thousands of developers, across a wide range of industries and use cases. Devbox can help your team, whether you're focused on cloud development, data science, or open source packaging

Our projects leverage Devbox to automate our dev environments. No more (outdated) getting started guides, missing dependencies, or "it works on my machine"... it runs anywhere including CI.

Mike Nikles

Founder, Webstone Technologies

With Devbox, it's been so easy to share developer environment with my instructors and other developers. They're truly portable and don't require Docker to run.

Tao Hansen

Developer Advocate, Garden.io

Onboarding new developers has never been easier and our CI/CD never looked cleaner. We highly recommend Devbox to any team looking to improve their development workflow.

George Antoniadis

Software Engineer, Nimona

Our projects leverage Devbox to automate our dev environments. No more (outdated) getting started guides, missing dependencies, or "it works on my machine"... it runs anywhere, including CI

Mike Nikles

Founder, Webstone Technologies

With Devbox it's been so easy to share developer environments with my instructors and other developers. They're truly portable and don't require Docker to run.

Tao Hansen

Developer Advocate, Garden.io

Power Up your Developer Productivity

Devbox helps solve your dev environment provisioning headaches, and keeps developers productive and focused on what matters.

Testing New Packages

Try new tools and frameworks without modifying your host machine. Install and run packages on demand, then delete the dev environment when finished.

Eliminate Toil

Automate the setup and package installation for your dev environment with init hooks. Bundle common development tasks into reusable scripts

Easy Preview Environments

Devbox bundles your configuration with code, so you can preview branches or pull-requests for any repo. You can run preview environments in the browser with Devbox Cloud

Instant Developer Onboarding

Ramp up and onboard new developers without complicated shell scripts or guides. Just install Devbox, run devbox shell, and get started coding

High Fidelity CI/CD Testing

Use Devbox to reproduce your test environment across localhost and CI/CD build hosts. Use Github Actions to create workflows from your scripts

Maintain multiple projects

Devbox tracks the packages for each of your projects in an isolated and reproducible Nix shell. Develop isolated projects with conflicting dependencies on the same machine.

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