BuildKit - CI/CD Glossary Definition
BuildKit is Docker's modern build engine that parallelizes independent build steps, supports advanced caching, build secrets, and cache mounts, and is enabled by default in current Docker.
BuildKit is Docker's modern build engine that parallelizes independent build steps, supports advanced caching, build secrets, and cache mounts, and is enabled by default in current Docker.
BuildKit is Docker's modern build engine that parallelizes independent build steps, supports advanced caching, build secrets, and cache mounts, and is enabled by default in current Docker.
In CI
BuildKit's --cache-to/--cache-from export cache to a registry, and RUN --mount=type=cache persists package caches across builds on ephemeral runners.
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