yugabytedb on nix

• intro
• binary install
• yugabyte nix package
• shell.nix file

intro _

I wanted to run yugabytedb on nix and could not find it packaged, so I needed to make my own derivation.

This post is how I achieved that.

binary install _

I looked at vault-bin as an example of how to do the installation as yugabytedb is distributed as a tarball of binaries.

yugabyte nix package _

I created the following file after a little trial and error and with the help of claude.ai

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:

pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  pname = "yugabytedb";
  version = "2025.2.0.1";

  src = pkgs.fetchurl {
    url = "https://software.yugabyte.com/releases/${version}/yugabyte-${version}-b1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz";
    sha256 = "sha256-9wNK8a9fX7VmD/qr0ZmMkaoEiK43YRjnYccMSvjsC34=";
  };

  dontConfigure = true;
  dontBuild = true;
  dontStrip = true;
  dontPatchELF = true;
  dontPatchShebangs = true;

  buildInputs = with pkgs; [
    stdenv.cc.cc.lib
    openssl
    zlib
    python3
    libkrb5
  ];

  # Yugabyte's tarball comes with a folder inside.
  # We just move everything to $out.
  installPhase = ''
    mkdir -p $out
    rm bin/post_install.sh
    cp -vr . $out/

  '';

  meta = with pkgs.lib; {
    description = "High-performance distributed SQL database";
    homepage = "https://www.yugabyte.com/";
    license = licenses.asl20;
    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
  };
}

shell.nix file _

shell.nix because I plan to run this in nix-direnv

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:

with pkgs;
let
  yugabytedb = callPackage ./pkg/yugabytedb.nix {};
in
mkShell {
  buildInputs = [
    overmind
    yugabytedb
  ];
}

startup scripts _

run-yugabyte.sh shell script

#!/usr/bin/env bash
iface="$(ip route show default |awk '/default via/ {print $5}')"
ip="$(ip -br a show dev $iface | awk -F'[/ ]+' '{print $3}')"
set -x
yugabyted start --advertise_address $ip --daemon=false --base_dir ~/yugabyte