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Show HN: Earthly – Build automation for the container era

by vladaionescu on 4/16/20, 3:49 PM with 3 comments

• by beagle3 on 4/16/20, 11:05 PM

  This is awesome.

  Vlad's blog post at https://vladaionescu.com/introducing-earthly-build-automatio... is a shorter introduction.

  Reminds me of SourceHut's CI infrastructure (that uses VMs, rather than containers, and IIRC doesn't natively multi-stage in the same way - but has a similar use profile)

• by scg on 4/16/20, 4:08 PM

  It's basically Makefile + Dockerfile combined. That's useful because you can get rid of ad-hoc shell scripts, and builds are deterministic.

• by Avernar on 4/16/20, 4:02 PM

  The ability to create a docker image from multiple sub-images is pretty useful. I think you could also use Dockerfile multi stage builds for that, but it’s not as clean.