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Docker

Custom Dockerfile syntax

Custom Dockerfile syntax

Dockerfile frontend

BuildKit supports loading frontends dynamically from container images. To use an external Dockerfile frontend, the first line of your Dockerfile needs to set the syntax directive pointing to the specific image you want to use: 

# syntax=[remote image reference]

For example: 

# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
# syntax=docker.io/docker/dockerfile:1
# syntax=example.com/user/repo:tag@sha256:abcdef...

This defines the location of the Dockerfile syntax that is used to build the Dockerfile. The BuildKit backend allows seamlessly using external implementations that are distributed as Docker images and execute inside a container sandbox environment.

Custom Dockerfile implementations allow you to:

  • Automatically get bugfixes without updating the Docker daemon
  • Make sure all users are using the same implementation to build your Dockerfile
  • Use the latest features without updating the Docker daemon
  • Try out new features or third-party features before they are integrated in the Docker daemon
  • Use alternative build definitions, or create your own

Note

BuildKit also ships with a built-in Dockerfile frontend, but it’s recommended to use an external image to make sure that all users use the same version on the builder and to pick up bugfixes automatically without waiting for a new version of BuildKit or Docker Engine.

Official releases

Docker distributes official versions of the images that can be used for building Dockerfiles under docker/dockerfile repository on Docker Hub. There are two channels where new images are released: stable and labs .

Stable channel

The stable channel follows semantic versioning. For example:

  • docker/dockerfile:1 - kept updated with the latest 1.x.x minor and patch release.
  • docker/dockerfile:1.2 - kept updated with the latest 1.2.x patch release, and stops receiving updates once version 1.3.0 is released.
  • docker/dockerfile:1.2.1 - immutable: never updated.

We recommend using docker/dockerfile:1 , which always points to the latest stable release of the version 1 syntax, and receives both “minor” and “patch” updates for the version 1 release cycle. BuildKit automatically checks for updates of the syntax when performing a build, making sure you are using the most current version.

If a specific version is used, such as 1.2 or 1.2.1 , the Dockerfile needs to be updated manually to continue receiving bugfixes and new features. Old versions of the Dockerfile remain compatible with the new versions of the builder.

Labs channel

The labs channel provides early access to Dockerfile features that are not yet available in the stable channel. labs images are released at the same time as stable releases, and follow the same version pattern, but use the -labs suffix, for example:

  • docker/dockerfile:labs - latest release on labs channel.
  • docker/dockerfile:1-labs - same as dockerfile:1 , with experimental features enabled.
  • docker/dockerfile:1.2-labs - same as dockerfile:1.2 , with experimental features enabled.
  • docker/dockerfile:1.2.1-labs - immutable: never updated. Same as dockerfile:1.2.1 , with experimental features enabled.

Choose a channel that best fits your needs. If you want to benefit from new features, use the labs channel. Images in the labs channel contain all the features in the stable channel, plus early access features. Stable features in the labs channel follow semantic versioning, but early access features don’t, and newer releases may not be backwards compatible. Pin the version to avoid having to deal with breaking changes.

Other resources

For documentation on “labs” features, master builds, and nightly feature releases, refer to the description in the BuildKit source repository on GitHub. For a full list of available images, visit the docker/dockerfile repository on Docker Hub, and the docker/dockerfile-upstream repository on Docker Hub for development builds.

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Docker driver

Docker driver

The Buildx Docker driver is the default driver. It uses the BuildKit server components built directly into the Docker engine. The Docker driver requires no configuration.

Unlike the other drivers, builders using the Docker driver can’t be manually created. They’re only created automatically from the Docker context.

Images built with the Docker driver are automatically loaded to the local image store.

Synopsis 

# The Docker driver is used by buildx by default
docker buildx build .

It’s not possible to configure which BuildKit version to use, or to pass any additional BuildKit parameters to a builder using the Docker driver. The BuildKit version and parameters are preset by the Docker engine internally.

If you need additional configuration and flexibility, consider using the Docker container driver.

Further reading

For more information on the Docker driver, see the buildx reference.

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BuildKit

BuildKit

Overview

BuildKit is an improved backend to replace the legacy builder. It comes with new and much improved functionality for improving your builds’ performance and the reusability of your Dockerfiles. It also introduces support for handling more complex scenarios:

  • Detect and skip executing unused build stages
  • Parallelize building independent build stages
  • Incrementally transfer only the changed files in your build context between builds
  • Detect and skip transferring unused files in your build context
  • Use Dockerfile frontend implementations with many new features
  • Avoid side effects with rest of the API (intermediate images and containers)
  • Prioritize your build cache for automatic pruning

Apart from many new features, the main areas BuildKit improves on the current experience are performance, storage management, and extensibility. From the performance side, a significant update is a new fully concurrent build graph solver. It can run build steps in parallel when possible and optimize out commands that don’t have an impact on the final result. We have also optimized the access to the local source files. By tracking only the updates made to these files between repeated build invocations, there is no need to wait for local files to be read or uploaded before the work can begin.

LLB

At the core of BuildKit is a Low-Level Build (LLB) definition format. LLB is an intermediate binary format that allows developers to extend BuildKit. LLB defines a content-addressable dependency graph that can be used to put together very complex build definitions. It also supports features not exposed in Dockerfiles, like direct data mounting and nested invocation.

Directed acyclic graph (DAG)

Everything about execution and caching of your builds is defined in LLB. The caching model is entirely rewritten compared to the legacy builder. Rather than using heuristics to compare images, LLB directly tracks the checksums of build graphs and content mounted to specific operations. This makes it much faster, more precise, and portable. The build cache can even be exported to a registry, where it can be pulled on-demand by subsequent invocations on any host.

LLB can be generated directly using a golang client package that allows defining the relationships between your build operations using Go language primitives. This gives you full power to run anything you can imagine, but will probably not be how most people will define their builds. Instead, most users would use a frontend component, or LLB nested invocation, to run a prepared set of build steps.

Frontend

A frontend is a component that takes a human-readable build format and converts it to LLB so BuildKit can execute it. Frontends can be distributed as images, and the user can target a specific version of a frontend that is guaranteed to work for the features used by their definition.

For example, to build a Dockerfile with BuildKit, you would use an external Dockerfile frontend.

Getting started

BuildKit is enabled by default for all users on Docker Desktop. If you have installed Docker Desktop, you don’t have to manually enable BuildKit. If you are running Docker on Linux, you can enable BuildKit either by using an environment variable or by making BuildKit the default setting.

To set the BuildKit environment variable when running the docker build command, run: 

$ DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build .

Note

Buildx always enables BuildKit.

To enable docker BuildKit by default, set daemon configuration in /etc/docker/daemon.json feature to true and restart the daemon. If the daemon.json file doesn’t exist, create new file called daemon.json and then add the following to the file. 

{
  "features": {
    "buildkit" : true
  }
}

And restart the Docker daemon.

Warning

BuildKit only supports building Linux containers. Windows support is tracked in moby/buildkit#616

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BuildKit TOML configuration

BuildKit TOML configuration

The TOML file used to configure the buildkitd daemon settings has a short list of global settings followed by a series of sections for specific areas of daemon configuration.

The file path is /etc/buildkit/buildkitd.toml for rootful mode, ~/.config/buildkit/buildkitd.toml for rootless mode.

The following is a complete buildkitd.toml configuration example, please note some configuration is only good for edge cases, please take care of it carefully. 

debug = true
# root is where all buildkit state is stored.
root = "/var/lib/buildkit"
# insecure-entitlements allows insecure entitlements, disabled by default.
insecure-entitlements = [ "network.host", "security.insecure" ]

[grpc]
  address = [ "tcp://0.0.0.0:1234" ]
  # debugAddress is address for attaching go profiles and debuggers.
  debugAddress = "0.0.0.0:6060"
  uid = 0
  gid = 0
  [grpc.tls]
    cert = "/etc/buildkit/tls.crt"
    key = "/etc/buildkit/tls.key"
    ca = "/etc/buildkit/tlsca.crt"

# config for build history API that stores information about completed build commands
[history]
  # maxAge is the maximum age of history entries to keep, in seconds.
  maxAge = 172800
  # maxEntries is the maximum number of history entries to keep.
  maxEntries = 50

[worker.oci]
  enabled = true
  # platforms is manually configure platforms, detected automatically if unset.
  platforms = [ "linux/amd64", "linux/arm64" ]
  snapshotter = "auto" # overlayfs or native, default value is "auto".
  rootless = false # see docs/rootless.md for the details on rootless mode.
  # Whether run subprocesses in main pid namespace or not, this is useful for
  # running rootless buildkit inside a container.
  noProcessSandbox = false
  gc = true
  gckeepstorage = 9000
  # alternate OCI worker binary name(example 'crun'), by default either 
  # buildkit-runc or runc binary is used
  binary = ""
  # name of the apparmor profile that should be used to constrain build containers.
  # the profile should already be loaded (by a higher level system) before creating a worker.
  apparmor-profile = ""
  # limit the number of parallel build steps that can run at the same time
  max-parallelism = 4
  # maintain a pool of reusable CNI network namespaces to amortize the overhead
  # of allocating and releasing the namespaces
  cniPoolSize = 16

  [worker.oci.labels]
    "foo" = "bar"

  [[worker.oci.gcpolicy]]
    keepBytes = 512000000
    keepDuration = 172800
    filters = [ "type==source.local", "type==exec.cachemount", "type==source.git.checkout"]
  [[worker.oci.gcpolicy]]
    all = true
    keepBytes = 1024000000

[worker.containerd]
  address = "/run/containerd/containerd.sock"
  enabled = true
  platforms = [ "linux/amd64", "linux/arm64" ]
  namespace = "buildkit"
  gc = true
  # gckeepstorage sets storage limit for default gc profile, in MB.
  gckeepstorage = 9000
  # maintain a pool of reusable CNI network namespaces to amortize the overhead
  # of allocating and releasing the namespaces
  cniPoolSize = 16

  [worker.containerd.labels]
    "foo" = "bar"

  [[worker.containerd.gcpolicy]]
    keepBytes = 512000000
    keepDuration = 172800 # in seconds
    filters = [ "type==source.local", "type==exec.cachemount", "type==source.git.checkout"]
  [[worker.containerd.gcpolicy]]
    all = true
    keepBytes = 1024000000

# registry configures a new Docker register used for cache import or output.
[registry."docker.io"]
  # mirror configuration to handle path in case a mirror registry requires a /project path rather than just a host:port
  mirrors = ["yourmirror.local:5000", "core.harbor.domain/proxy.docker.io"]
  http = true
  insecure = true
  ca=["/etc/config/myca.pem"]
  [[registry."docker.io".keypair]]
    key="/etc/config/key.pem"
    cert="/etc/config/cert.pem"

# optionally mirror configuration can be done by defining it as a registry.
[registry."yourmirror.local:5000"]
  http = true
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Azure Blob Storage cache

Azure Blob Storage cache

Warning

This cache backend is unreleased. You can use it today, by using the moby/buildkit:master image in your Buildx driver.

The azblob cache store uploads your resulting build cache to Azure’s blob storage service.

Note

This cache storage backend requires using a different driver than the default docker driver - see more information on selecting a driver here. To create a new driver (which can act as a simple drop-in replacement): 

$ docker buildx create --use --driver=docker-container

Synopsis 

$ docker buildx build --push -t <registry>/<image> \
  --cache-to type=azblob,name=<cache-image>[,parameters...] \
  --cache-from type=azblob,name=<cache-image>[,parameters...] .

The following table describes the available CSV parameters that you can pass to --cache-to and --cache-from .

Name Option Type Default Description
name cache-to , cache-from String  Required. The name of the cache image.
account_url cache-to , cache-from String  Base URL of the storage account.
secret_access_key cache-to , cache-from String  Blob storage account key, see authentication.
mode cache-to min , max min Cache layers to export, see cache mode.

Authentication

The secret_access_key , if left unspecified, is read from environment variables on the BuildKit server following the scheme for the Azure Go SDK. The environment variables are read from the server, not the Buildx client.

Further reading

For an introduction to caching see Optimizing builds with cache.

For more information on the azblob cache backend, see the BuildKit README.

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GitHub Actions cache

GitHub Actions cache

Warning

The GitHub Actions cache is a beta feature. You can use it today, in current releases of Buildx and BuildKit. However, the interface and behavior are unstable and may change in future releases.

The GitHub Actions cache utilizes the GitHub-provided Action’s cache available from within your CI execution environment. This is the recommended cache to use inside your GitHub action pipelines, as long as your use case falls within the size and usage limits set by GitHub.

Note

This cache storage backend requires using a different driver than the default docker driver - see more information on selecting a driver here. To create a new driver (which can act as a simple drop-in replacement): 

$ docker buildx create --use --driver=docker-container

Synopsis 

$ docker buildx build --push -t <registry>/<image> \
  --cache-to type=gha[,parameters...] \
  --cache-from type=gha[,parameters...] .

The following table describes the available CSV parameters that you can pass to --cache-to and --cache-from .

Name Option Type Default Description
url cache-to , cache-from String $ACTIONS_CACHE_URL Cache server URL, see authentication.
token cache-to , cache-from String $ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN Access token, see authentication.
scope cache-to , cache-from String Name of the current Git branch. Cache scope, see scope
mode cache-to min , max min Cache layers to export, see cache mode.

Authentication

If the url or token parameters are left unspecified, the gha cache backend will fall back to using environment variables. If you invoke the docker buildx command manually from an inline step, then the variables must be manually exposed (using crazy-max/ghaction-github-runtime , for example).

Scope

By default, cache is scoped per Git branch. This ensures a separate cache environment for the main branch and each feature branch. If you build multiple images on the same branch, each build will overwrite the cache of the previous, leaving only the final cache.

To preserve the cache for multiple builds on the same branch, you can manually specify a cache scope name using the scope parameter. In the following example, the cache is set to a combination of the branch name and the image name, to ensure each image gets its own cache): 

$ docker buildx build --push -t <registry>/<image> \
  --cache-to type=gha,url=...,token=...,scope=$GITHUB_REF_NAME-image \
  --cache-from type=gha,url=...,token=...,scope=$GITHUB_REF_NAME-image .
$ docker buildx build --push -t <registry>/<image2> \
  --cache-to type=gha,url=...,token=...,scope=$GITHUB_REF_NAME-image2 \
  --cache-from type=gha,url=...,token=...,scope=$GITHUB_REF_NAME-image2 .

GitHub’s cache access restrictions, still apply. Only the cache for the current branch, the base branch and the default branch is accessible by a workflow.

Using docker/build-push-action

When using the docker/build-push-action , the url and token parameters are automatically populated. No need to manually specify them, or include any additional workarounds.

For example: 

- name: Build and push
  uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
  with:
    context: .
    push: true
    tags: "<registry>/<image>:latest"
    cache-from: type=gha
    cache-to: type=gha,mode=max

Further reading

For an introduction to caching see Optimizing builds with cache.

For more information on the gha cache backend, see the BuildKit README.

For more information about using GitHub Actions with Docker, see Introduction to GitHub Actions

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