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Using Docker Build Cloud

Docker Build Cloud is a service that lets you build your container images faster, both locally and in CI. Builds run on cloud infrastructure optimally dimensioned for your workloads, no configuration required. The service uses a remote build cache, ensuring fast builds anywhere and for all team members.

How Docker Build Cloud works

Using Docker Build Cloud is no different from running a regular build. You invoke a build the same way you normally would, using docker buildx build. The difference is in where and how that build gets executed.

By default when you invoke a build command, the build runs on a local instance of BuildKit, bundled with the Docker daemon. With Docker Build Cloud, you send the build request to a BuildKit instance running remotely, in the cloud. All data is encrypted in transit.

The remote builder executes the build steps, and sends the resulting build output to the destination that you specify. For example, back to your local Docker Engine image store, or to an image registry.

Docker Build Cloud provides several benefits over local builds:

  • Improved build speed
  • Shared build cache
  • Native multi-platform builds
  • And the best part: you don't need to worry about managing builders or infrastructure.

Method: 1 : Running it locally

docker buildx create --driver cloud dockerdevrel/demo-builder
docker buildx build --builder cloud-dockerdevrel-demo-builder .

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Method:2 =- Running it using GitHub Workflow

Open dockersamples/ repo and se the workflow.