BuildKit

wikipedia: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
• Installation: brew install buildkit

Binaries:

• buildkitd daemon
• buildctl client

To enable using BuildKit:

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build .

Related terms

• Buildx (plugin)
• Low Level Builder (LLB)
• export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 or export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1
• export COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD=0
• moby/buildkit docker image
• GitHub Actions cache

See also

• Docker Buildx (plugin)
• Moby: BuildKit
• BuildKit, buildctl