Happy 2026! 🎉

Scheduled some time off to close out the year? 👀 There are 30+ AI assistants / MCP servers / agentic tools out there. Can you test them all on your own machine without breaking anything? Spoiler: yes, you can! Perfect for #vibecoding, prototyping, and #agenticdevelopment. buff.ly/UCIuizs

You got a new laptop for Christmas. Suh-weet! You absolutely want to build software with it, which means setting up your local dev environment. Easier said than done! This time, however, you’ve got #Flox. And that makes all the difference. buff.ly/BGDkDlk

30+ AI assistants / MCP servers / spec-driven-AI tools. Can you test drive all of them? On your own machine? Without breaking anything? (Spoiler alert: Yes, you can!) Read on to find out why Flox and FloxHub are perfect for vibe coding! buff.ly/UCIuizs

Tired of chasing “works on my machine” issues? With Flox, you can create polyglot development environments that start with a single command, run the same on every laptop, and stay fully aligned with your CI and production setups. Try Flox for free 👉 buff.ly/ybrekAQ #devtools

Different machines, different tools, and changes make it difficult to maintain reliability at scale. Flox simplifies this by giving platform engineers a way to create reproducible, standardized environments that work the same on every laptop, CI runner, and production system. buff.ly/DH6B41a

Flox v.1.8.0 is here! 🎉 We’ve improved behavior on remote environments (now called FloxHub environments). 🚀 Faster activations with improved network performance ➡️ Offline-friendly workflows 🟣 Add custom labels when containerizing with Flox — via the CLI or in the manifest buff.ly/CyY3nkK

#PlanetNix 2026: First Speakers Announced! We’re excited to welcome our first speakers to Planet Nix 2026: ⭐ @kelseyhightower.com ⭐ Priya Ananthasankar ⭐ Stormy Peters ⭐ Ron Efroni If you’ve learned something worth sharing, we’d love to hear from you. 😎 CFP is still open! buff.ly/3npbtj6

We’re happy to share that Flox has been named a Winter 2025 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award Winner! Intellyx speaks with hundreds of tech vendors each year, so we’re grateful to be included! Thanks to the Intellyx team, and congrats to everyone highlighted this year! buff.ly/18GCjdf

If you’re building software with a mix of services, tools, and #AI assistants, this is a great deep dive into what reproducible environments actually look like when they’re done right. If you care about #developer experience, reliability, or agentic workflows, take a look! buff.ly/xdzwUa8

When Michael talks about “meeting users where they are,” this is exactly what he means. Full recording: buff.ly/IRa0CKj

We’re excited to welcome James Bayer as our new product leader! James has spent his career working closely with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams to build products customers love. Most recently, he led product at FluidCloud, and before that spent over five years at HashiCorp. 🚀

We’re excited to welcome Gil to the Flox engineering team! Gil brings 11+ years of full-stack development and engineering leadership experience, including time at Google and building products across multiple markets. We’re thrilled to have him join us! 🚀

We’re excited to welcome David Martin as our new VP of Marketing at Flox! 🎉 David brings years of experience across product and GTM with roles at Plotly, AWS, Hugging Face, Tableau, VMware, and others. He’s spent his career helping teams scale products in infrastructure, cloud, and AI. Welcome!

Kubernetes gives us a declarative model for creating and managing clusters, but the way we build the OCI images our workloads run on is still largely imperative... Our latest article in the "Kubernetes, Uncontained" series looks at how Flox closes that gap. buff.ly/fNxtsx6

If you're at AWS re:Invent, swing by the NVIDIA booth today at 12 PM! We’re talking Ultimate AI Stacks with NVIDIA + Flox. Hear from: 🟣 Michael Brantley, CTO & Co-Founder at Flox 🟣 Jeremy Hogan, Solutions Engineer at Flox See you there! buff.ly/V6whS5U

If you’re at AWS re:Invent today, come hear @stahnma.us, VP of Engineering at Flox, during his talk Kubernetes Without Container Images at AWS Learning Corner 2 at 10:40 AM. And if you want to keep the conversation going, we’re hosting a casual coffee meetup at 2 PM 👉 buff.ly/lOfSxWg

Day 2 of AWS re:Invent! The Flox team is here all week 💜 Want to say hello or book time with us? Check it out 👉 buff.ly/lHQo5TY

AI is writing more of our code but can today’s infrastructure keep up? @stahnma.us, our VP of Engineering, digs into one of the biggest shifts happening in software right now: the tension between AI-generated code and the deterministic systems it relies on. More in the article ➡️ buff.ly/ppGT5sU

PlanetNix 2026 is coming to Pasadena, CA (co-located with the SCALE conference) in March! Whether you’re deep into #Nix or just starting to explore it, we’d love to hear from you. PlanetNix will run two tracks across two days, mixing talks with hands-on workshops ❄️ buff.ly/jZEYeho

With AWS re:Invent starting now, the Flox team is on site in Las Vegas. If you’re focused on platform engineering, developer experience, or AI/ML infrastructure, we’d love to connect and learn more about what your team is building! More here: buff.ly/lHQo5TY

We’ll be at AWS re:Invent next week 🚀 If you’re working on platform engineering, developer experience, AI/ML infrastructure, and similar areas, we’d be happy to meet, talk through your setup, and hear what you’re building. More 👉 buff.ly/lHQo5TY

Using #Nix under the hood, Flox gives teams a consistent, reproducible foundation for AI workloads (across laptops, CI, and production) without requiring anyone to learn Nix. More on Flox & AI: flox.dev/ai/

With Kubernetes, Uncontained, Flox introduces a new way to run workloads — without building or pulling container images. Deep dive 👉 buff.ly/bxlo8Gy

CFP for PlanetNix 2026 is open! Two days. Two tracks. Talks, workshops, lightning talks… • Using Nix in production or at home • Reproducible builds, cross-compiling, cursed computing stories • Dev experience, onboarding, and adoption • Nix tricks Submit your talk: buff.ly/wHMR3Q8

It's today! LinkedIn Live with @kelseyhightower.com & the Flox team. One week after #KubeCon North America, we’re going live for a quick debrief and deep dive into what’s new in Kubernetes. Join us 👉 buff.ly/ypJD72S

It’s been a big few weeks for Flox: from our Series B announcement to the launch of Kubernetes, Uncontained at #KubeCon. Here's what's out there: CityBiz: Q&A with our CEO Ron Efroni: buff.ly/Zv1Jwtz The Fast Mode: buff.ly/665YhNd City Buzz: buff.ly/MKEjMJk SiliconANGLE: buff.ly/kAhfqzW

In his latest SiliconANGLE column, analyst @bluefug.bsky.social from @Intellyx reflects on the strength and evolution of the #Kubernetes ecosystem and highlights Flox among the companies helping push platform engineering forward. Read more: buff.ly/kAhfqzW

Come over! Booth #1850 at #KubeCon 🔥

I added one more book signing for KubeCon Atlanta, see y'all tomorrow.

We’re wrapping things up tomorrow with something special 🚀 Join us for a book signing with @kelseyhightower.com at the Flox Booth #1850! Come say hi, grab a signed copy, and catch one more great conversation before #KubeCon ends. Flox Booth #1850 12:30 PM See you there! 👇 luma.com/1tjghv27

Tomorrow at the @flox.dev booth at kubecon. @kelseyhightower.com If you missed out earlier, it’s your last chance. luma.com/1tjghv27

Happening now! Booth 1850 at #KubeCon 🔥 @kelseyhightower.com @stahnma.us

Happening soon at #KubeCon! Fireside chat: Kubernetes, Uncontained with @kelseyhightower.com, Michael Brantley, and @stahnma.us 🔥 Booth #1850 at 1PM. Come hang out and see what’s next 🚀 Shoutout to the Flox crew Michael, Michael, Morgan, Robin, Jeremy, and @benfutor.bsky.social!

Swing by the @flox.dev booth today at 13:00 EST. @kelseyhightower.com, Flox Founder/CTO Michael Brantley and I will be talking about running our Flox Environments (powered by nix) in Kubernetes. Not just how, but why, and how conversations 8+ months ago got us to this point.

#KubeCon! 🧇 Breakfast at Waffle House, hosted with our friends at Augment Code: buff.ly/HECLXwc 🔥 Fireside chat with @kelseyhightower.com, @stahnma.us and Michael Brantley — tomorrow at 1 PM 📘 Book signing with Kelsey on Thursday, starting at 12:45 PM Swing by the Flox Booth #1850!

We’re at #KubeCon, where reliability runs deep (and so does our love for perfectly cromulent coffee and waffles!) That’s why we’re teaming up with our friends at @augmentcode.com for a breakfast that celebrates both on Wednesday morning at Waffle House! Come hang out with us 👉 buff.ly/HECLXwc

Introducing Kubernetes, Uncontained by Flox! 🎉 Run the same immutable, declarative env across local → CI → prod Kubernetes on x86 & ARM. 🟣 Faster deploys 🟣 Reproducibility 🟣 SBOMs-by-default. Live demos + chats with our engineers + @kelseyhightower.com at #KubeCon Booth 1850. buff.ly/pFqSlEZ

Something new is coming…😎 We’ll be at #KubeCon North America next week — find us at Booth #1850! Join us for a fireside chat on “Kubernetes, Uncontained” with @kelseyhightower.com @stahnma.us and Michael Brantley on Wed! Then stop by our booth for a chance to get Kelsey’s latest book signed 🚀

We're hosting a CUDA Meet-Up with NVIDIA on Thu, Nov 13th at Ramp HQ in NYC! We’ll have demos, plus a panel featuring: David Rukshin, WorldQuant, Neil Katz, D.E. Shaw, Keith Kraus, NVIDIA, and moderated by @benfutor.bsky.social And we’ll be raffling off an NVIDIA DGX Spark unit! buff.ly/u8KuEa8

Learned a lesson about @flox.dev today. The more stuff you have in a default environment the more likely it is that you’ll accidentally leave something out of a project environment because it’s already available. Won’t be obvious until someone else tries to use the project without your default env

Exciting news! We've been shortlisted for the OpenUK Awards 2025! Grateful for the support of our team and community 💜 #openukawards @openuk.bsky.social

We’re at DevOpsDays Warsaw tomorrow and Wednesday! 🇵🇱 Come find us: Rok, Tanja and Joanna from the Flox team will be there. Swing by our table to chat about: 🟣 Reproducible development environments 🟣 Bringing Nix to your team 🟣 And how Flox makes it all easier Come say hi 👋 See you!

Throwback to a big milestone for Flox 💜 A few weeks ago, we announced our $25M Series B led by Addition, and it’s been amazing to see the community and press recognize what we’re building! 🟣 Pulse 2.0: buff.ly/NkbwQVp 🟣 CityBiz: buff.ly/knXcEzu 🟣 SiliconANGLE: buff.ly/VXGuSJu

We’re hosting a CUDA Meet-Up with NVIDIA on November 13th at Ramp HQ! If you’re working with GPU-accelerated workloads and ML/AI development, and you’re struggling with reproducible behavior at build-time and runtime, come hang out! buff.ly/u8KuEa8

Flox brings the power of #Nix to teams: - Familiar commands - Cross-platform reproducibility - Declarative manifests (TOML-based) that are readable, versionable, and easy to share. - Team-ready workflows: push, pull, build, publish — just like git. Full guide 👉https://buff.ly/ahrh2Hs

Flox = AI-friendly dev environments Flox is a cross-platform, cross-language package and environment manager built on open-source #Nix, but wrapped in a workflow that feels natural for both humans and agents. Full guide on agentic coding with Flox 👉 buff.ly/WR3W1I1

We’ll be at GitHub Universe ’25 this week, so if you’re in SF and want to talk about reproducible environments, developer velocity, or how Flox powers AI-driven workflows, let’s grab a coffee (or a boba!). 🚀 And make sure to join us for the Dark Mode Party: buff.ly/JAUnMYn

Call for Papers is now open for PlanetNix 2026! Co-located with SCALE in Pasadena, CA, PlanetNix is back on March 5 & 6, 2026. Two full days, two tracks 💜 We’re curating talks and workshops for all skill levels, from first-time explorers to long-time Nix users. Submit here: buff.ly/DVHDGm5

We’ve just released Flox 1.7.5! This update includes several fixes and improvements - including activation by generation, pagination and JSON output for flox generations list and flox generations history, improved handling of services in run mode activations, and more. More: