BuildKit
BuildKit is a next-generation toolkit for building container images, designed for efficiency, security, and extensibility. It modernizes the `docker build` experience by providing a high-performance, concurrent, and cache-aware engine for declarative image construction. As part of the Moby…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2017
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- BuildKit was created to overcome the limitations of Docker's legacy build engine, particularly its lack of parallel execution, inefficient caching mechanisms, limited extensibility, and absence of built-in multi-platform build capabilities. It aimed to provide a faster, more secure, and more flexible foundation for building container images.
- Platforms
- Linux (x86-64, ARM64, ARMv7), Windows (via Docker Desktop's Linux VM), macOS (via Docker Desktop's Linux VM)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Docker (as its core build engine)
- GitHub Actions (via `docker/setup-buildx-action`)
- Google Cloud Build
- AWS CodeBuild
- Many enterprises utilizing Docker for containerization