cloud66-oss/habitus

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1400 stars · 80 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Habitus is a standalone command-line build flow tool for Docker that orchestrates chained, multi-step Docker image builds defined in a build.yml file. It supports secrets handling during builds, artifact copying between steps, and image squashing to produce minimal final images.

Use cases

• chain multiple docker builds into a workflow
• use ssh keys as secrets during docker build without leaving traces
• build compiled go or java apps into minimal docker images
• copy build artifacts between docker build steps
• squash docker image layers after build
• combine multiple dockerfiles into one build pipeline

When to choose

• you need multi-step docker build workflows with secrets before buildkit secrets were available
• you want to chain builds and pass artifacts between images
• you need to squash final images to remove build layers

When to avoid

• you use modern Docker BuildKit which supports multi-stage builds and build secrets natively
• you want an actively maintained tool - the last release was in 2020
• you only need simple single-Dockerfile builds

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

build-tool ci-cd secrets-management container-runtime deployment developer-tools windows cli go docker-build multi-stage-build build-workflow dockerfile build-secrets image-squashing containers devops linux macos docker

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