We deleted our Dockerfiles: a better, faster way to build container images

https://www.rwx.com/blog/we-deleted-our-dockerfiles

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joshuagvk• 8 months ago

Really interested to give this a try. I haven't used RWX for CI yet (overall my builds wouldn't have benefited enough from the caching), but docker build times are definitely a pebble in my shoe

isaacvando• 8 months ago

We use jib at work (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib) which also skips the Dockerfile and builds an image for a Java project directly.

This certainly looks like a much nicer experience than docker build, especially given that there can be a cache hit after a cache miss.

d3Xt3r• 8 months ago

Am I missing something or does rwx not have a free/self-hosted option?

dan_manges• 8 months ago

Hey! I'm one of the RWX cofounders. We don't have a self-hosted option yet, but we're interested in opening it up in the future. Our infrastructure is more complex to run than normal self-hosted runners infrastructure, due to extensive caching and provisioning optimizations.

jared-jesionek• 8 months ago

Excited to check this out! Been using rwx and it's already much faster than github actions. Interested to see how this speeds up our builds.

fourteenminutes• 8 months ago

Love these problems being solved at a platform level rather than just a language level.

We deleted our Dockerfiles: a better, faster way to build container images

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