Earthly
Repeatable, container-based builds for CI
Earthly is an open-source build automation tool that runs reproducible builds inside containers using a syntax that combines Dockerfiles and Makefiles. It works the same on any CI system or locally.
Key features
- Reproducible container builds
- Works on any CI
- Parallel build execution
- Build cache support
Strengths
- Released under the MPL-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 12k GitHub stars
- Written in Go
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