buildkit VS setup-buildx-action

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buildkit

Posts with mentions or reviews of buildkit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-03.
  • ARM vs x86 em Docker
    1 project | dev.to | 5 Apr 2024
  • The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023
    > We are uding docker-in-docker at the moment

    You can also run a "less privileged" container with all the features of Docker by using rootless buildkit in Kubernetes. Here are some examples:

    https://github.com/moby/buildkit/tree/master/examples/kubern...

    https://github.com/moby/buildkit/blob/master/examples/kubern...

    It's also possible to run dedicated buildkitd workers and connect to them remotely.

  • Show HN: Dockerfile Explorer
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2023
    - BuildOp evaluates its input as additional LLB operations to add to the graph to allow for dynamic build graphs (also unused in the Dockerfile frontend)

    With the Dockerfile Explorer, we run the Dockerfile frontend[1] that BuildKit uses inside of WASM to parse and produce the LLB output locally in your browser. We then embed the Monaco Editor so that you can change your Dockerfile to see how it impacts the LLB output that BuildKit will use to build your Docker image.

    You can see a quick video and read more details on how it all works here: https://depot.dev/blog/dockerfile-explorer.

    We'd love any feedback or ideas folks would like around this type of tool!

    [0] https://github.com/moby/buildkit#exploring-llb

  • macOS Containers v0.0.1
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
  • Jenkins Agents On Kubernetes
    7 projects | dev.to | 4 Sep 2023
    Now since Kubernetes works off of containerd I'll be taking a different approach on handling container builds by using nerdctl and the buildkit that comes bundled with it. I'll do this on the amd64 control plane node since it's beefier than my Raspberry Pi workers for handling builds and build related services. Go ahead and download and unpack the latest nerdctl release as of writing (make sure to check the release page in case there's a new one):
  • Frequent Docker BuildKit cache misses with w/ multi-stage and docker-container
    1 project | /r/docker | 11 Jul 2023
    There's a 2-year-old moby/buildkit GitHub issue about frequent build cache misses when using the BuildKit docker-container driver and multi-stage builds. Anyone else in this sub run into this problem and/or have reasonable workarounds? It seems like something that should come up pretty often.
  • A Panic in BuildKit: an Open Source Journey
    1 project | /r/golang | 4 Jul 2023
    A couple months ago I encountered a bug in buildkit - when enabling OpenTelemetry tracing, we got occasional panics. With a bit of investigation, we found the cause, fixed and tested in our fork and internal deployments, and pushed to upstream.
  • Is it possible to copy files from a manifest in Dockerfile?
    1 project | /r/docker | 11 May 2023
    I do some search in the internet and there seems to be no good solution, so I just create a feature request: https://github.com/moby/buildkit/issues/3859
  • Cicada - CI/CD platform written with Rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 25 Apr 2023
    Yeah, only Linux containers at the moment, BuildKit is the way we are constructing pipelines and doing caching. Split on if we will support non-linux hosts, but definitely want to find a good solution to not doing Docker-in-Docker.
  • Better support of Docker layer caching in Cargo
    2 projects | /r/rust | 30 Mar 2023
    Relevant issues are https://github.com/moby/buildkit/issues/3011 and https://github.com/moby/buildkit/issues/1512.

setup-buildx-action

Posts with mentions or reviews of setup-buildx-action. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-12.
  • GitHub Actions Are a Problem
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
    Good luck running this locally. There's no script code to speak of, just references to external "actions" and parameters (for example, https://github.com/docker/setup-buildx-action).

    Some CI platforms are just a simple glue layer (Gitlab CI - which I prefer - is one of them), but in most cases Github CI is not. Maybe it adds to the author frustration?

  • Automate Docker Image Builds and Push to Docker Hub Using GitHub Actions šŸ³šŸ™
    10 projects | dev.to | 1 Mar 2023
    Set up Docker Buildx: We will use the docker/setup-buildx-action action to set up Docker Buildx.
  • One Dockerfile is all it takes, falling in love with bake
    5 projects | dev.to | 16 Jan 2023
    Thereā€™s an amazing docker/bake-action which makes it insanely easy to build all of your containers in the most optimal way. Since weā€™ve set the group ā€œdefaultā€ block in the docker-bake.hcl, config is very minimal. One step in your GitHub Action workflow file will build all of your images and will push all of your cache layers, tag all of your containers, and push all your final images. Youā€™ll still have to do things like checkout the code and donā€™t forget that youā€™ll want to use the docker/setup-buildx-action since bake is a buildx feature. Thereā€™s one quick gotcha for the actual docker/bake-action. We donā€™t want to push PR builds and we donā€™t want to pollute the cache with PR builds.
  • Building with Qemu via Github Actions taking forever. What other options are there?
    3 projects | /r/docker | 1 Dec 2022
    To be clear, that article does NOT provide a solution for avoiding QEMU. I suggested it because it describes "the hard way" to get a single image multi-arch image. The github action crazy-max/ghaction-docker-buildx has been archived and replaced by docker/setup-qemu-action and docker/setup-buildx-action, which it seems like you were already using.
  • Pushing Cutom Images to Docker Hub using GitHub Actions
    7 projects | dev.to | 30 Sep 2022
    Third step is docker/setup-buildx-action configures buildx, which is a Docker CLI plugin that provides enhanced build capabilities.
  • Containerizing Laravel Applications
    8 projects | dev.to | 23 Sep 2022
    We then use the docker/setup-buildx-action action to initialize an environment to build Docker images:
  • How to use Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions
    2 projects | dev.to | 27 Jun 2022
    The setup-buildx-action configures Docker Buildx to create a builder instance for running the image build. The following step build-push-action, makes use of that instance to build your Docker image. The build-push-action supports all of the features provided by BuildKit out of the box. In our simple example, we are only specifying the Docker context, but more advanced features like SSH, secrets, and build args are supported.
  • Why Darwin Failed (2006)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2022
  • Multi-arch docker images the easy way, with Github Actions
    7 projects | dev.to | 12 Jan 2022
    # Get the repository's code - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v2 # https://github.com/docker/setup-qemu-action - name: Set up QEMU uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v1 # https://github.com/docker/setup-buildx-action - name: Set up Docker Buildx id: buildx uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1
  • Semantic release to npm and/or ghcr without any tooling
    21 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021
    docker/setup-buildx-action@v1 - we use it to setup the docker builder

What are some alternatives?

When comparing buildkit and setup-buildx-action you can also consider the following projects:

buildah - A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

setup-qemu-action - GitHub Action to install QEMU static binaries

kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes

build-push-action - GitHub Action to build and push Docker images with Buildx

jib - šŸ— Build container images for your Java applications.

metadata-action - GitHub Action to extract metadata (tags, labels) from Git reference and GitHub events for Docker

buildx - Docker CLI plugin for extended build capabilities with BuildKit

setup-node - Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of node.js

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

cache - Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

exec - :shell: semantic-release plugin to execute custom shell commands