High-level builds with Bake
Experimental
Bake is an experimental feature, and we are looking for feedback from usersopen_in_new.
Buildx provides support for high-level build orchestration that goes beyond invoking a single build command. Bake lets you build all the images in your application together. You can define all of the build jobs for your projects in a file that can then be easily invoked by anyone.
You can think of Bake as a task runner for Docker builds.
BuildKitopen_in_new efficiently handles multiple
concurrent build requests and de-duplicating work. You can invoke your builds
using general-purpose task runners, like make
. However, such tools generally
invoke builds in a sequence. Therefore they aren't leveraging the full
potential of BuildKit parallelization. Bake solves this problem.
The docker buildx bake
command supports building images from a configuration
file in HCL, JSON or YAML format. The YAML format extends the Compose
Specification, and it's similar to docker compose build
, except it builds all
of your services concurrently as part of a single request.