Adam Gordon Bell

Conf42: Cloud Native 2021

Compiling Containers

What happens when you take a Dockerfile and build it? How is the series of commands executed and turned into a docker image and then a container? The answer is BuildKit. BuildKit is an OCI image builder and it is behind every docker build and the secret sauce in several other projects. In this talk, I will explain how BuildKit works. We will learn it is a compiler and like many compilers, it...