dockerfilegraph
brew install dockerfilegraph
v0.21.0
MIT
Visualize your multi-stage Dockerfiles
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★ GitHub stars · updated 2mo ago
Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
GitHub topics
cli
command-line
container
docker
dockerfile
go
golang
graph
graphviz
visualization
Links
- https://github.com/patrickhoefler/dockerfilegraph
- GitHub: patrickhoefler/dockerfilegraph
- Brew formula source: Formula/d/dockerfilegraph.rb
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