Hey, I'm Ramiro, one of the maintainers. We do several things to speed the whole cycle up.
When you are using Okteto Cloud to run your apps, you get all this:
- Build is run in big servers in the Okteto Cloud infra. It's based on buildkit, and it's heavily cached and optimized towards development scenarios. The build context is sent from your local machine to the service and everything else happens there.
- The registry in the same infrastructure as the build services. The image is pushed from the build service to the registry, instead of from your machine.
- The deployment runs in the same cluster as well, to speed up the time it takes to pull the image.
You can also use "okteto push" with your own infra, by providing your own buildkit service, registry and k8s cluster. Depending on where they are located with respect to each other this might be slower or faster (e.g using dockerhub for registry will be slower than using a dedicated one in your own cluster, mainly due to network speed and proximity).
The biggest benefits of this approach are being able to move all this to the k8s cluster, where you can leverage more compute power and faster network transmission. That way you are not pulling and pushing images across the internet.
How do you build containers safely in a multi tenant setup?
Any open source repos to check out?
My environment has the things in the cloud, but it is still not seconds. Even npm watch takes several seconds, let alone docker builds almost always take minutes
> Even npm watch takes several seconds, let alone docker builds almost always take minutes
That's where caching, container layers and build stages can help a lot. Specially for development, where you might be rebuilding the same container over and over.
Docker build alone makes me believe this is a false statement.
This mostly seems like the same steps my bash script runs, perhaps in cluster?
Does this require some base container of yours running in my cluster? Any place I can audit that container and code?