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Docker can import any tarball as a rootfs for a container, essentially allowing you to use whatever build tool you want.

Dockerfiles/`docker build` is an implementation of a build system which uses the docker engine to make said rootfs.



Yes, but the actual container image that is being distributed can only be created by Docker. The ability to import is nice, but irrelevant here.




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