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brew install buildkitd v0.31.0 Apache-2.0

Concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit (Daemon)

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Runtime dependencies

runc

Build dependencies

go

GitHub topics

builder buildkit cloud-native containers docker dockerfile go golang oci oci-image

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Caveats

To run buildkitd as the current user, see the following steps:
  OCI worker mode:
    brew install rootlesskit
    rootlesskit buildkitd
  containerd worker mode:
    brew install nerdctl containerd rootlesskit slirp4netns
    containerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install
    CONTAINERD_NAMESPACE=default containerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install-buildkit-containerd

To run buildkitd as the root user, use `brew services` with `sudo --preserve-env=HOME`.
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