docker/buildx

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Docker Buildx is a Docker CLI plugin that provides extended image build capabilities powered by BuildKit. It supports multiple builder instances, multi-platform image builds, and high-level build orchestration via Bake.

Use cases

• build docker images with buildkit
• build multi-architecture container images
• create and manage docker builder instances
• build images for arm64 on an x86 machine
• run complex multi-image builds with bake
• build docker images inside kubernetes

When to choose

• you need BuildKit features not available in the legacy docker build
• you need to build multi-platform or multi-architecture images
• you want to manage multiple isolated builders or remote builders
• you want declarative, high-level build workflows with Bake

When to avoid

• you only need simple, single-platform image builds with the default docker build
• you are not using Docker or a BuildKit-compatible engine
• you need to build non-container artifacts

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

build-tool container-runtime developer-tools cli developer-tools cloud-computing windows cli go docker buildkit container-images multi-platform-builds docker-cli-plugin bake oci-images devops containers linux macos kubernetes

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