Flox has announced the general availability of its new Command Line Interface (CLI) and FloxHub to help developers define their environments with precision, use them to collaborate efficiently with others, and align them with the software they ship.

Flox’s environments are built specifically to manage a supply chain of software that developers can collaboratively use across any environment with the world’s largest repository of packages, NixPkgs. Engineers can now manage environments across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), from development to build and runtime.

“The new Flox CLI and FloxHub are the result of hundreds of deep conversations with everyday developers who provided insights about what they need to simplify their development environments and reduce wasted developer cycles,” said Ron Efroni, co-founder and CEO at Flox. “Creating environments where developers can build reliable, reproducible and auditable software while benefiting from the amazing growth of the software commons is not a small undertaking and we take the responsibility seriously. We believe Flox will help organizations begin a transformation that will save their developers time and build trust in the software they deliver.”

The Flox CLI helps developers manage their environments across desktops and servers, while FloxHub is a cloud service that makes it easy to share them with others using a simple command. Using them, software developers can create portable environments that provide consistency across machines and projects.

The CLI is open source and FloxHub is free for anyone to use.