BuildKit

BuildKit is a concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit. BuildKit is designed to work well for building for multiple platforms and not only for the architecture and operating system that the user invoking the build happens to run.

Homepage: https://github.com/moby/buildkit

Binaries:

• buildkitd daemon
• buildctl client

To enable using BuildKit:

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build .

Related terms

• Buildx (plugin)
• LLB

export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0
export COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD=0

See also

• Docker Buildx (plugin)
• Moby: BuildKit