uber-archive/makisu

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Flags: archived

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

Makisu is a fast and flexible Docker image build tool designed for unprivileged containerized environments such as Mesos or Kubernetes. It requires no elevated privileges or Docker daemon, offers a distributed layer cache, and lets users control generated layers with a #!COMMIT keyword.

Use cases

• build docker images without a docker daemon
• build container images inside kubernetes pods without privileged mode
• speed up image builds across a cluster with a shared layer cache
• reduce the number of layers in generated docker images
• build images in mesos or other unprivileged sandboxed environments
• replace docker build in ci pipelines

When to choose

• you need daemonless, rootless docker image builds in restricted environments like kubernetes or mesos
• you want a distributed layer cache shared across a build cluster
• you need fine-grained control over layer generation in dockerfiles

When to avoid

• you need an actively maintained tool - the project was archived in May 2021
• you build images only on developer machines where docker is available
• you rely on full dockerfile compatibility, since makisu's parser is opinionated in some scenarios

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

build-tool container-runtime ci-cd caching cloud-computing developer-tools go cli docker-image-builder daemonless distributed-layer-cache mesos unprivileged-builds archived containers devops linux docker kubernetes

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