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diff --git a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/containers.nix b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/containers.nix
index dad211ef55b..7d184575640 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/containers.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/containers.nix
@@ -1,824 +1,125 @@
 { config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-
 let
-
-  # The container's init script, a small wrapper around the regular
-  # NixOS stage-2 init script.
-  containerInit = (cfg:
-    let
-      renderExtraVeth = (name: cfg:
-        ''
-        echo "Bringing ${name} up"
-        ip link set dev ${name} up
-        ${optionalString (cfg.localAddress != null) ''
-          echo "Setting ip for ${name}"
-          ip addr add ${cfg.localAddress} dev ${name}
-        ''}
-        ${optionalString (cfg.localAddress6 != null) ''
-          echo "Setting ip6 for ${name}"
-          ip -6 addr add ${cfg.localAddress6} dev ${name}
-        ''}
-        ${optionalString (cfg.hostAddress != null) ''
-          echo "Setting route to host for ${name}"
-          ip route add ${cfg.hostAddress} dev ${name}
-        ''}
-        ${optionalString (cfg.hostAddress6 != null) ''
-          echo "Setting route6 to host for ${name}"
-          ip -6 route add ${cfg.hostAddress6} dev ${name}
-        ''}
-        ''
-        );
-    in
-      pkgs.writeScript "container-init"
-      ''
-        #! ${pkgs.runtimeShell} -e
-
-        # Initialise the container side of the veth pair.
-        if [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS" ]   || [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS6" ]  ||
-           [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS" ]  || [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS6" ] ||
-           [ -n "$HOST_BRIDGE" ]; then
-          ip link set host0 name eth0
-          ip link set dev eth0 up
-
-          if [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS" ]; then
-            ip addr add $LOCAL_ADDRESS dev eth0
-          fi
-          if [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS6" ]; then
-            ip -6 addr add $LOCAL_ADDRESS6 dev eth0
-          fi
-          if [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS" ]; then
-            ip route add $HOST_ADDRESS dev eth0
-            ip route add default via $HOST_ADDRESS
-          fi
-          if [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS6" ]; then
-            ip -6 route add $HOST_ADDRESS6 dev eth0
-            ip -6 route add default via $HOST_ADDRESS6
-          fi
-
-          ${concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList renderExtraVeth cfg.extraVeths)}
-        fi
-
-        # Start the regular stage 1 script.
-        exec "$1"
-      ''
-    );
-
-  nspawnExtraVethArgs = (name: cfg: "--network-veth-extra=${name}");
-
-  startScript = cfg:
-    ''
-      mkdir -p -m 0755 "$root/etc" "$root/var/lib"
-      mkdir -p -m 0700 "$root/var/lib/private" "$root/root" /run/containers
-      if ! [ -e "$root/etc/os-release" ]; then
-        touch "$root/etc/os-release"
-      fi
-
-      if ! [ -e "$root/etc/machine-id" ]; then
-        touch "$root/etc/machine-id"
-      fi
-
-      mkdir -p -m 0755 \
-        "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-container/$INSTANCE" \
-        "/nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-container/$INSTANCE"
-
-      cp --remove-destination /etc/resolv.conf "$root/etc/resolv.conf"
-
-      if [ "$PRIVATE_NETWORK" = 1 ]; then
-        extraFlags+=" --private-network"
-      fi
-
-      if [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS" ]  || [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS" ] ||
-         [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS6" ] || [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS6" ]; then
-        extraFlags+=" --network-veth"
-      fi
-
-      if [ -n "$HOST_PORT" ]; then
-        OIFS=$IFS
-        IFS=","
-        for i in $HOST_PORT
-        do
-            extraFlags+=" --port=$i"
-        done
-        IFS=$OIFS
-      fi
-
-      if [ -n "$HOST_BRIDGE" ]; then
-        extraFlags+=" --network-bridge=$HOST_BRIDGE"
-      fi
-
-      extraFlags+=" ${concatStringsSep " " (mapAttrsToList nspawnExtraVethArgs cfg.extraVeths)}"
-
-      for iface in $INTERFACES; do
-        extraFlags+=" --network-interface=$iface"
-      done
-
-      for iface in $MACVLANS; do
-        extraFlags+=" --network-macvlan=$iface"
-      done
-
-      # If the host is 64-bit and the container is 32-bit, add a
-      # --personality flag.
-      ${optionalString (config.nixpkgs.localSystem.system == "x86_64-linux") ''
-        if [ "$(< ''${SYSTEM_PATH:-/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-container/$INSTANCE/system}/system)" = i686-linux ]; then
-          extraFlags+=" --personality=x86"
-        fi
-      ''}
-
-      # Run systemd-nspawn without startup notification (we'll
-      # wait for the container systemd to signal readiness).
-      exec ${config.systemd.package}/bin/systemd-nspawn \
-        --keep-unit \
-        -M "$INSTANCE" -D "$root" $extraFlags \
-        $EXTRA_NSPAWN_FLAGS \
-        --notify-ready=yes \
-        --bind-ro=/nix/store \
-        --bind-ro=/nix/var/nix/db \
-        --bind-ro=/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket \
-        --bind="/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-container/$INSTANCE:/nix/var/nix/profiles" \
-        --bind="/nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-container/$INSTANCE:/nix/var/nix/gcroots" \
-        ${optionalString (!cfg.ephemeral) "--link-journal=try-guest"} \
-        --setenv PRIVATE_NETWORK="$PRIVATE_NETWORK" \
-        --setenv HOST_BRIDGE="$HOST_BRIDGE" \
-        --setenv HOST_ADDRESS="$HOST_ADDRESS" \
-        --setenv LOCAL_ADDRESS="$LOCAL_ADDRESS" \
-        --setenv HOST_ADDRESS6="$HOST_ADDRESS6" \
-        --setenv LOCAL_ADDRESS6="$LOCAL_ADDRESS6" \
-        --setenv HOST_PORT="$HOST_PORT" \
-        --setenv PATH="$PATH" \
-        ${optionalString cfg.ephemeral "--ephemeral"} \
-        ${if cfg.additionalCapabilities != null && cfg.additionalCapabilities != [] then
-          ''--capability="${concatStringsSep "," cfg.additionalCapabilities}"'' else ""
-        } \
-        ${if cfg.tmpfs != null && cfg.tmpfs != [] then
-          ''--tmpfs=${concatStringsSep " --tmpfs=" cfg.tmpfs}'' else ""
-        } \
-        ${containerInit cfg} "''${SYSTEM_PATH:-/nix/var/nix/profiles/system}/init"
-    '';
-
-  preStartScript = cfg:
-    ''
-      # Clean up existing machined registration and interfaces.
-      machinectl terminate "$INSTANCE" 2> /dev/null || true
-
-      if [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS" ]  || [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS" ] ||
-         [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS6" ] || [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS6" ]; then
-        ip link del dev "ve-$INSTANCE" 2> /dev/null || true
-        ip link del dev "vb-$INSTANCE" 2> /dev/null || true
-      fi
-
-      ${concatStringsSep "\n" (
-        mapAttrsToList (name: cfg:
-          ''ip link del dev ${name} 2> /dev/null || true ''
-        ) cfg.extraVeths
-      )}
-   '';
-
-  postStartScript = (cfg:
-    let
-      ipcall = cfg: ipcmd: variable: attribute:
-        if cfg.${attribute} == null then
-          ''
-            if [ -n "${variable}" ]; then
-              ${ipcmd} add ${variable} dev $ifaceHost
-            fi
-          ''
-        else
-          ''${ipcmd} add ${cfg.${attribute}} dev $ifaceHost'';
-      renderExtraVeth = name: cfg:
-        if cfg.hostBridge != null then
-          ''
-            # Add ${name} to bridge ${cfg.hostBridge}
-            ip link set dev ${name} master ${cfg.hostBridge} up
-          ''
-        else
-          ''
-            echo "Bring ${name} up"
-            ip link set dev ${name} up
-            # Set IPs and routes for ${name}
-            ${optionalString (cfg.hostAddress != null) ''
-              ip addr add ${cfg.hostAddress} dev ${name}
-            ''}
-            ${optionalString (cfg.hostAddress6 != null) ''
-              ip -6 addr add ${cfg.hostAddress6} dev ${name}
-            ''}
-            ${optionalString (cfg.localAddress != null) ''
-              ip route add ${cfg.localAddress} dev ${name}
-            ''}
-            ${optionalString (cfg.localAddress6 != null) ''
-              ip -6 route add ${cfg.localAddress6} dev ${name}
-            ''}
-          '';
-    in
-      ''
-        if [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS" ]  || [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS" ] ||
-           [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS6" ] || [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS6" ]; then
-          if [ -z "$HOST_BRIDGE" ]; then
-            ifaceHost=ve-$INSTANCE
-            ip link set dev $ifaceHost up
-
-            ${ipcall cfg "ip addr" "$HOST_ADDRESS" "hostAddress"}
-            ${ipcall cfg "ip -6 addr" "$HOST_ADDRESS6" "hostAddress6"}
-            ${ipcall cfg "ip route" "$LOCAL_ADDRESS" "localAddress"}
-            ${ipcall cfg "ip -6 route" "$LOCAL_ADDRESS6" "localAddress6"}
-          fi
-          ${concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList renderExtraVeth cfg.extraVeths)}
-        fi
-      ''
-  );
-
-  serviceDirectives = cfg: {
-    ExecReload = pkgs.writeScript "reload-container"
-      ''
-        #! ${pkgs.runtimeShell} -e
-        ${pkgs.nixos-container}/bin/nixos-container run "$INSTANCE" -- \
-          bash --login -c "''${SYSTEM_PATH:-/nix/var/nix/profiles/system}/bin/switch-to-configuration test"
-      '';
-
-    SyslogIdentifier = "container %i";
-
-    EnvironmentFile = "-/etc/containers/%i.conf";
-
-    Type = "notify";
-
-    RuntimeDirectory = lib.optional cfg.ephemeral "containers/%i";
-
-    # Note that on reboot, systemd-nspawn returns 133, so this
-    # unit will be restarted. On poweroff, it returns 0, so the
-    # unit won't be restarted.
-    RestartForceExitStatus = "133";
-    SuccessExitStatus = "133";
-
-    # Some containers take long to start
-    # especially when you automatically start many at once
-    TimeoutStartSec = cfg.timeoutStartSec;
-
-    Restart = "on-failure";
-
-    Slice = "machine.slice";
-    Delegate = true;
-
-    # Hack: we don't want to kill systemd-nspawn, since we call
-    # "machinectl poweroff" in preStop to shut down the
-    # container cleanly. But systemd requires sending a signal
-    # (at least if we want remaining processes to be killed
-    # after the timeout). So send an ignored signal.
-    KillMode = "mixed";
-    KillSignal = "WINCH";
-
-    DevicePolicy = "closed";
-    DeviceAllow = map (d: "${d.node} ${d.modifier}") cfg.allowedDevices;
+  cfg = config.virtualisation.containers;
+
+  inherit (lib) mkOption types;
+
+  # Once https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/75584 is merged we can use the TOML generator
+  toTOML = name: value: pkgs.runCommandNoCC name {
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.remarshal ];
+    value = builtins.toJSON value;
+    passAsFile = [ "value" ];
+  } ''
+    json2toml "$valuePath" "$out"
+  '';
+
+  # Copy configuration files to avoid having the entire sources in the system closure
+  copyFile = filePath: pkgs.runCommandNoCC (builtins.unsafeDiscardStringContext (builtins.baseNameOf filePath)) {} ''
+    cp ${filePath} $out
+  '';
+in
+{
+  meta = {
+    maintainers = [] ++ lib.teams.podman.members;
   };
 
+  options.virtualisation.containers = {
 
-  system = config.nixpkgs.localSystem.system;
-
-  bindMountOpts = { name, ... }: {
-
-    options = {
-      mountPoint = mkOption {
-        example = "/mnt/usb";
-        type = types.str;
-        description = "Mount point on the container file system.";
-      };
-      hostPath = mkOption {
-        default = null;
-        example = "/home/alice";
-        type = types.nullOr types.str;
-        description = "Location of the host path to be mounted.";
-      };
-      isReadOnly = mkOption {
-        default = true;
+    enable =
+      mkOption {
         type = types.bool;
-        description = "Determine whether the mounted path will be accessed in read-only mode.";
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          This option enables the common /etc/containers configuration module.
+        '';
       };
-    };
-
-    config = {
-      mountPoint = mkDefault name;
-    };
 
-  };
-
-  allowedDeviceOpts = { ... }: {
-    options = {
-      node = mkOption {
-        example = "/dev/net/tun";
-        type = types.str;
-        description = "Path to device node";
-      };
-      modifier = mkOption {
-        example = "rw";
-        type = types.str;
+    registries = {
+      search = mkOption {
+        type = types.listOf types.str;
+        default = [ "docker.io" "quay.io" ];
         description = ''
-          Device node access modifier. Takes a combination
-          <literal>r</literal> (read), <literal>w</literal> (write), and
-          <literal>m</literal> (mknod). See the
-          <literal>systemd.resource-control(5)</literal> man page for more
-          information.'';
+          List of repositories to search.
+        '';
       };
-    };
-  };
-
-
-  mkBindFlag = d:
-               let flagPrefix = if d.isReadOnly then " --bind-ro=" else " --bind=";
-                   mountstr = if d.hostPath != null then "${d.hostPath}:${d.mountPoint}" else "${d.mountPoint}";
-               in flagPrefix + mountstr ;
 
-  mkBindFlags = bs: concatMapStrings mkBindFlag (lib.attrValues bs);
+      insecure = mkOption {
+        default = [];
+        type = types.listOf types.str;
+        description = ''
+          List of insecure repositories.
+        '';
+      };
 
-  networkOptions = {
-    hostBridge = mkOption {
-      type = types.nullOr types.str;
-      default = null;
-      example = "br0";
-      description = ''
-        Put the host-side of the veth-pair into the named bridge.
-        Only one of hostAddress* or hostBridge can be given.
-      '';
+      block = mkOption {
+        default = [];
+        type = types.listOf types.str;
+        description = ''
+          List of blocked repositories.
+        '';
+      };
     };
 
-    forwardPorts = mkOption {
-      type = types.listOf (types.submodule {
-        options = {
-          protocol = mkOption {
-            type = types.str;
-            default = "tcp";
-            description = "The protocol specifier for port forwarding between host and container";
-          };
-          hostPort = mkOption {
-            type = types.int;
-            description = "Source port of the external interface on host";
-          };
-          containerPort = mkOption {
-            type = types.nullOr types.int;
-            default = null;
-            description = "Target port of container";
+    policy = mkOption {
+      default = {};
+      type = types.attrs;
+      example = lib.literalExample ''
+        {
+          default = [ { type = "insecureAcceptAnything"; } ];
+          transports = {
+            docker-daemon = {
+              "" = [ { type = "insecureAcceptAnything"; } ];
+            };
           };
-        };
-      });
-      default = [];
-      example = [ { protocol = "tcp"; hostPort = 8080; containerPort = 80; } ];
-      description = ''
-        List of forwarded ports from host to container. Each forwarded port
-        is specified by protocol, hostPort and containerPort. By default,
-        protocol is tcp and hostPort and containerPort are assumed to be
-        the same if containerPort is not explicitly given.
-      '';
-    };
-
-
-    hostAddress = mkOption {
-      type = types.nullOr types.str;
-      default = null;
-      example = "10.231.136.1";
-      description = ''
-        The IPv4 address assigned to the host interface.
-        (Not used when hostBridge is set.)
+        }
       '';
-    };
-
-    hostAddress6 = mkOption {
-      type = types.nullOr types.str;
-      default = null;
-      example = "fc00::1";
       description = ''
-        The IPv6 address assigned to the host interface.
-        (Not used when hostBridge is set.)
+        Signature verification policy file.
+        If this option is empty the default policy file from
+        <literal>skopeo</literal> will be used.
       '';
     };
 
-    localAddress = mkOption {
-      type = types.nullOr types.str;
-      default = null;
-      example = "10.231.136.2";
-      description = ''
-        The IPv4 address assigned to the interface in the container.
-        If a hostBridge is used, this should be given with netmask to access
-        the whole network. Otherwise the default netmask is /32 and routing is
-        set up from localAddress to hostAddress and back.
-      '';
-    };
-
-    localAddress6 = mkOption {
-      type = types.nullOr types.str;
-      default = null;
-      example = "fc00::2";
+    users = mkOption {
+      default = [];
+      type = types.listOf types.str;
       description = ''
-        The IPv6 address assigned to the interface in the container.
-        If a hostBridge is used, this should be given with netmask to access
-        the whole network. Otherwise the default netmask is /128 and routing is
-        set up from localAddress6 to hostAddress6 and back.
+        List of users to set up subuid/subgid mappings for.
+        This is a requirement for running rootless containers.
       '';
     };
 
   };
 
-  dummyConfig =
-    {
-      extraVeths = {};
-      additionalCapabilities = [];
-      ephemeral = false;
-      timeoutStartSec = "15s";
-      allowedDevices = [];
-      hostAddress = null;
-      hostAddress6 = null;
-      localAddress = null;
-      localAddress6 = null;
-      tmpfs = null;
-    };
-
-in
-
-{
-  options = {
-
-    boot.isContainer = mkOption {
-      type = types.bool;
-      default = false;
-      description = ''
-        Whether this NixOS machine is a lightweight container running
-        in another NixOS system.
-      '';
-    };
+  config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
 
-    boot.enableContainers = mkOption {
-      type = types.bool;
-      default = !config.boot.isContainer;
-      description = ''
-        Whether to enable support for NixOS containers.
-      '';
+    environment.etc."containers/registries.conf".source = toTOML "registries.conf" {
+      registries = lib.mapAttrs (n: v: { registries = v; }) cfg.registries;
     };
 
-    containers = mkOption {
-      type = types.attrsOf (types.submodule (
-        { config, options, name, ... }:
-        {
-          options = {
-
-            config = mkOption {
-              description = ''
-                A specification of the desired configuration of this
-                container, as a NixOS module.
-              '';
-              type = lib.mkOptionType {
-                name = "Toplevel NixOS config";
-                merge = loc: defs: (import ../../lib/eval-config.nix {
-                  inherit system;
-                  modules =
-                    let
-                      extraConfig = {
-                        _file = "module at ${__curPos.file}:${toString __curPos.line}";
-                        config = {
-                          boot.isContainer = true;
-                          networking.hostName = mkDefault name;
-                          networking.useDHCP = false;
-                          assertions = [
-                            {
-                              assertion =  config.privateNetwork -> stringLength name < 12;
-                              message = ''
-                                Container name `${name}` is too long: When `privateNetwork` is enabled, container names can
-                                not be longer than 11 characters, because the container's interface name is derived from it.
-                                This might be fixed in the future. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/38509
-                              '';
-                            }
-                          ];
-                        };
-                      };
-                    in [ extraConfig ] ++ (map (x: x.value) defs);
-                  prefix = [ "containers" name ];
-                }).config;
-              };
-            };
-
-            path = mkOption {
-              type = types.path;
-              example = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/containers/webserver";
-              description = ''
-                As an alternative to specifying
-                <option>config</option>, you can specify the path to
-                the evaluated NixOS system configuration, typically a
-                symlink to a system profile.
-              '';
-            };
-
-            additionalCapabilities = mkOption {
-              type = types.listOf types.str;
-              default = [];
-              example = [ "CAP_NET_ADMIN" "CAP_MKNOD" ];
-              description = ''
-                Grant additional capabilities to the container.  See the
-                capabilities(7) and systemd-nspawn(1) man pages for more
-                information.
-              '';
-            };
-
-            ephemeral = mkOption {
-              type = types.bool;
-              default = false;
-              description = ''
-                Runs container in ephemeral mode with the empty root filesystem at boot.
-                This way container will be bootstrapped from scratch on each boot
-                and will be cleaned up on shutdown leaving no traces behind.
-                Useful for completely stateless, reproducible containers.
-
-                Note that this option might require to do some adjustments to the container configuration,
-                e.g. you might want to set
-                <varname>systemd.network.networks.$interface.dhcpConfig.ClientIdentifier</varname> to "mac"
-                if you use <varname>macvlans</varname> option.
-                This way dhcp client identifier will be stable between the container restarts.
-
-                Note that the container journal will not be linked to the host if this option is enabled.
-              '';
-            };
-
-            enableTun = mkOption {
-              type = types.bool;
-              default = false;
-              description = ''
-                Allows the container to create and setup tunnel interfaces
-                by granting the <literal>NET_ADMIN</literal> capability and
-                enabling access to <literal>/dev/net/tun</literal>.
-              '';
-            };
-
-            privateNetwork = mkOption {
-              type = types.bool;
-              default = false;
-              description = ''
-                Whether to give the container its own private virtual
-                Ethernet interface.  The interface is called
-                <literal>eth0</literal>, and is hooked up to the interface
-                <literal>ve-<replaceable>container-name</replaceable></literal>
-                on the host.  If this option is not set, then the
-                container shares the network interfaces of the host,
-                and can bind to any port on any interface.
-              '';
-            };
-
-            interfaces = mkOption {
-              type = types.listOf types.str;
-              default = [];
-              example = [ "eth1" "eth2" ];
-              description = ''
-                The list of interfaces to be moved into the container.
-              '';
-            };
-
-            macvlans = mkOption {
-              type = types.listOf types.str;
-              default = [];
-              example = [ "eth1" "eth2" ];
-              description = ''
-                The list of host interfaces from which macvlans will be
-                created. For each interface specified, a macvlan interface
-                will be created and moved to the container.
-              '';
-            };
-
-            extraVeths = mkOption {
-              type = with types; attrsOf (submodule { options = networkOptions; });
-              default = {};
-              description = ''
-                Extra veth-pairs to be created for the container
-              '';
-            };
-
-            autoStart = mkOption {
-              type = types.bool;
-              default = false;
-              description = ''
-                Whether the container is automatically started at boot-time.
-              '';
-            };
-
-		    timeoutStartSec = mkOption {
-		      type = types.str;
-		      default = "1min";
-		      description = ''
-		        Time for the container to start. In case of a timeout,
-		        the container processes get killed.
-		        See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.time</refentrytitle>
-		        <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-		        for more information about the format.
-		       '';
-		    };
-
-            bindMounts = mkOption {
-              type = with types; loaOf (submodule bindMountOpts);
-              default = {};
-              example = literalExample ''
-                { "/home" = { hostPath = "/home/alice";
-                              isReadOnly = false; };
-                }
-              '';
-
-              description =
-                ''
-                  An extra list of directories that is bound to the container.
-                '';
-            };
-
-            allowedDevices = mkOption {
-              type = with types; listOf (submodule allowedDeviceOpts);
-              default = [];
-              example = [ { node = "/dev/net/tun"; modifier = "rw"; } ];
-              description = ''
-                A list of device nodes to which the containers has access to.
-              '';
-            };
-
-            tmpfs = mkOption {
-              type = types.listOf types.str;
-              default = [];
-              example = [ "/var" ];
-              description = ''
-                Mounts a set of tmpfs file systems into the container.
-                Multiple paths can be specified.
-                Valid items must conform to the --tmpfs argument
-                of systemd-nspawn. See systemd-nspawn(1) for details.
-              '';
-            };
-
-            extraFlags = mkOption {
-              type = types.listOf types.str;
-              default = [];
-              example = [ "--drop-capability=CAP_SYS_CHROOT" ];
-              description = ''
-                Extra flags passed to the systemd-nspawn command.
-                See systemd-nspawn(1) for details.
-              '';
-            };
-
-          } // networkOptions;
-
-          config = mkMerge
-            [
-              (mkIf options.config.isDefined {
-                path = config.config.system.build.toplevel;
-              })
+    users.extraUsers = builtins.listToAttrs (
+      (
+        builtins.foldl' (
+          acc: user: {
+            values = acc.values ++ [
+              {
+                name = user;
+                value = {
+                  subUidRanges = [ { startUid = acc.offset; count = 65536; } ];
+                  subGidRanges = [ { startGid = acc.offset; count = 65536; } ];
+                };
+              }
             ];
-        }));
-
-      default = {};
-      example = literalExample
-        ''
-          { webserver =
-              { path = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/webserver";
-              };
-            database =
-              { config =
-                  { config, pkgs, ... }:
-                  { services.postgresql.enable = true;
-                    services.postgresql.package = pkgs.postgresql_9_6;
-
-                    system.stateVersion = "17.03";
-                  };
-              };
+            offset = acc.offset + 65536;
           }
-        '';
-      description = ''
-        A set of NixOS system configurations to be run as lightweight
-        containers.  Each container appears as a service
-        <literal>container-<replaceable>name</replaceable></literal>
-        on the host system, allowing it to be started and stopped via
-        <command>systemctl</command>.
-      '';
-    };
+        )
+        { values = []; offset = 100000; } (lib.unique cfg.users)
+      ).values
+    );
 
+    environment.etc."containers/policy.json".source =
+      if cfg.policy != {} then pkgs.writeText "policy.json" (builtins.toJSON cfg.policy)
+      else copyFile "${pkgs.skopeo.src}/default-policy.json";
   };
 
-
-  config = mkIf (config.boot.enableContainers) (let
-
-    unit = {
-      description = "Container '%i'";
-
-      unitConfig.RequiresMountsFor = "/var/lib/containers/%i";
-
-      path = [ pkgs.iproute ];
-
-      environment = {
-        root = "/var/lib/containers/%i";
-        INSTANCE = "%i";
-      };
-
-      preStart = preStartScript dummyConfig;
-
-      script = startScript dummyConfig;
-
-      postStart = postStartScript dummyConfig;
-
-      preStop = "machinectl poweroff $INSTANCE";
-
-      restartIfChanged = false;
-
-      serviceConfig = serviceDirectives dummyConfig;
-    };
-  in {
-    systemd.targets.multi-user.wants = [ "machines.target" ];
-
-    systemd.services = listToAttrs (filter (x: x.value != null) (
-      # The generic container template used by imperative containers
-      [{ name = "container@"; value = unit; }]
-      # declarative containers
-      ++ (mapAttrsToList (name: cfg: nameValuePair "container@${name}" (let
-          containerConfig = cfg // (
-          if cfg.enableTun then
-            {
-              allowedDevices = cfg.allowedDevices
-                ++ [ { node = "/dev/net/tun"; modifier = "rw"; } ];
-              additionalCapabilities = cfg.additionalCapabilities
-                ++ [ "CAP_NET_ADMIN" ];
-            }
-          else {});
-        in
-          recursiveUpdate unit {
-            preStart = preStartScript containerConfig;
-            script = startScript containerConfig;
-            postStart = postStartScript containerConfig;
-            serviceConfig = serviceDirectives containerConfig;
-            unitConfig.RequiresMountsFor = lib.optional (!containerConfig.ephemeral) "/var/lib/containers/%i";
-            environment.root = if containerConfig.ephemeral then "/run/containers/%i" else "/var/lib/containers/%i";
-          } // (
-          if containerConfig.autoStart then
-            {
-              wantedBy = [ "machines.target" ];
-              wants = [ "network.target" ];
-              after = [ "network.target" ];
-              restartTriggers = [
-                containerConfig.path
-                config.environment.etc."containers/${name}.conf".source
-              ];
-              restartIfChanged = true;
-            }
-          else {})
-      )) config.containers)
-    ));
-
-    # Generate a configuration file in /etc/containers for each
-    # container so that container@.target can get the container
-    # configuration.
-    environment.etc =
-      let mkPortStr = p: p.protocol + ":" + (toString p.hostPort) + ":" + (if p.containerPort == null then toString p.hostPort else toString p.containerPort);
-      in mapAttrs' (name: cfg: nameValuePair "containers/${name}.conf"
-      { text =
-          ''
-            SYSTEM_PATH=${cfg.path}
-            ${optionalString cfg.privateNetwork ''
-              PRIVATE_NETWORK=1
-              ${optionalString (cfg.hostBridge != null) ''
-                HOST_BRIDGE=${cfg.hostBridge}
-              ''}
-              ${optionalString (length cfg.forwardPorts > 0) ''
-                HOST_PORT=${concatStringsSep "," (map mkPortStr cfg.forwardPorts)}
-              ''}
-              ${optionalString (cfg.hostAddress != null) ''
-                HOST_ADDRESS=${cfg.hostAddress}
-              ''}
-              ${optionalString (cfg.hostAddress6 != null) ''
-                HOST_ADDRESS6=${cfg.hostAddress6}
-              ''}
-              ${optionalString (cfg.localAddress != null) ''
-                LOCAL_ADDRESS=${cfg.localAddress}
-              ''}
-              ${optionalString (cfg.localAddress6 != null) ''
-                LOCAL_ADDRESS6=${cfg.localAddress6}
-              ''}
-            ''}
-            INTERFACES="${toString cfg.interfaces}"
-            MACVLANS="${toString cfg.macvlans}"
-            ${optionalString cfg.autoStart ''
-              AUTO_START=1
-            ''}
-            EXTRA_NSPAWN_FLAGS="${mkBindFlags cfg.bindMounts +
-              optionalString (cfg.extraFlags != [])
-                (" " + concatStringsSep " " cfg.extraFlags)}"
-          '';
-      }) config.containers;
-
-    # Generate /etc/hosts entries for the containers.
-    networking.extraHosts = concatStrings (mapAttrsToList (name: cfg: optionalString (cfg.localAddress != null)
-      ''
-        ${head (splitString "/" cfg.localAddress)} ${name}.containers
-      '') config.containers);
-
-    networking.dhcpcd.denyInterfaces = [ "ve-*" "vb-*" ];
-
-    services.udev.extraRules = optionalString config.networking.networkmanager.enable ''
-      # Don't manage interfaces created by nixos-container.
-      ENV{INTERFACE}=="v[eb]-*", ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1"
-    '';
-
-    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.nixos-container ];
-
-    boot.kernelModules = [
-      "bridge"
-      "macvlan"
-      "tap"
-      "tun"
-    ];
-  });
 }