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    moby/buildkit

    concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit

    cloud
    devops
    builder
    buildkit
    cloud-native
    containers
    docker
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    Apache-2.0
    10.4K stars
    1.6K forks
    10.4K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 5, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 379 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #46 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 18, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic toolkit for building container images and other build artifacts.
    • Enables efficient builds with automatic garbage collection, concurrent dependency resolution, and pluggable frontends supporting multiple build definition languages.
    • Use for building multi-platform container images with advanced caching and export options to registries or local directories.
    • Use for integrating custom build frontends or languages by leveraging its extendable frontend architecture and low-level build definition format (LLB).
    • Use for running container builds in distributed or rootless environments with support for containerd and OCI workers.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    BuildKit is a toolkit for converting source code to build artifacts in an efficient, expressive and repeatable manner.

    Read the proposal from https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/32925

    Introductory blog post https://blog.mobyproject.org/introducing-buildkit-17e056cc5317

    Join #buildkit channel on Docker Community Slack

    :information_source: For Kubernetes deployments, see examples/kubernetes.

    BuildKit is composed of the buildkitd daemon and the buildctl client. While the buildctl client is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, the buildkitd daemon is only available for Linux and *Windows currently.

    The latest binaries of BuildKit are available here for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

    Excerpt from the moby/buildkit README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Sep 9: +1

    +191 stars over 89 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +1 on Sep 9.

    Forks

    1.6K+73

    Open issues

    836-77

    Compared with peers in Cloud

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