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Comment by inetknght

Buildx also has a completely different build output and it's completely useless for anything. Use `--output=plain`.

Also, buildx won't commit the intermediate layers during the build. So if something fails, you can't just grab the previous intermediate layer and do `docker run --entrypoint /bin/bash` on that layer to poke around.

I've had cases where BuildKit will get stuck and `docker buildx prune -a` will leave things around. The way to fix it is with `systemctl restart containerd.io`. This seems to happen a lot when I interrupt the build (eg, I know it will fail and need to restart it with a fix), but it's also happened on successful builds.

All of that is on top of docker itself having extremely poor error messages.

I really do not like docker or buildx.

parent inetknght 2 years ago

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