Docker Builders:Builder pattern vs. Multi-stage builds in Docker
Builder pattern vs. Multi-stage builds in Docker
This post looks at two new PRs from the Docker project that vastly improve the developer experience for building small images efficiently.
These changes are bleeding edge and are not available in a release yet, but I wanted to test them out.
A Docker PR has just been merged to enable multi-stage builds and a second PR opened just after that to improve the UX even further.
Happy day: https://t.co/WyXdLexRBq
— Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud) March 24, 2017
This is the first PR that adds multi-staged builds and has been merged.
Bleeding edge: multi-staged builds in @docker mean producing tiny images without hassle. https://t.co/bGporddWyW
— Alex Ellis (@alexellisuk) March 24, 2017
This second PR improves the UX but was not yet merged at the time of writing.
What was the builder pattern?
With a statically compiled language like Golang people tended to derive their Dockerfiles from the Golang "SDK" image, add source, do a build then push it to the Docker Hub.
Unfortunately the size of the resulting image was quite large - at least 670mb.
A workaround which is informally called the builder pattern involves using two Docker images - one to perform a build and another to ship the results of the first build without the penalty of the build-chain and tooling in the first image.
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
golang 1.7.3 ef15416724f6 4 months ago 672MB
Golang isn't the only language that can benefit from using one base image to build assets and a second image to run them. My work with Windows Containers also used this pattern to produce smaller images.
An example of the builder pattern:
- Derive from a Golang base image with the whole runtime/SDK (Dockerfile.build)
- Add source code
- Produce a statically-linked binary
- Copy the static binary from the image to the host (
docker create
,docker cp
) - Derive from
SCRATCH
or some other light-weight image such asalpine
(Dockerfile) - Add the binary back in
- Push a tiny image to the Docker Hub
This normally meant having two separate Dockerfiles and a shell script to orchestrate all of the 7 steps above.
Example
Here's an example from my href-counter repository which is a Golang application used to count the internal/external anchor tags on a web-page.
I'll provide all the files so you can see how much extra work was needed to get a small Docker image. Underneath I'll show the new format.
Dockerfile.build
FROM golang:1.7.3 WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/alexellis/href-counter/ RUN go get -d -v golang.org/x/net/html
COPY app.go . RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -a -installsuffix cgo -o app .
Dockerfile
FROM alpine:latest
RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates WORKDIR /root/ COPY app . CMD ["./app"]
build.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo Building alexellis2/href-counter:build docker build --build-arg https_proxy=$https_proxy --build-arg http_proxy=$http_proxy \
-t alexellis2/href-counter:build . -f Dockerfile.build docker create --name extract alexellis2/href-counter:build
docker cp extract:/go/src/github.com/alexellis/href-counter/app ./app
docker rm -f extract echo Building alexellis2/href-counter:latest docker build --no-cache -t alexellis2/href-counter:latest .
What are multi-stage builds?
Multi-stage builds give the benefits of the builder pattern without the hassle of maintaining three separate files:
FROM golang:1.7.3 WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/alexellis/href-counter/ RUN go get -d -v golang.org/x/net/html
COPY app.go . RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -a -installsuffix cgo -o app . FROM alpine:latest
RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates WORKDIR /root/ COPY --from=0 /go/src/github.com/alexellis/href-counter/app . CMD ["./app"]
This is huge for developers and maintainers, especially when you support multiple Dockerfiles for different architectures such as the Raspberry Pi.
The general syntax involves adding FROM
additional times within your Dockerfile - whichever is the last FROM
statement is the final base image.
To copy artifacts and outputs from intermediate images use COPY --from=<base_image_number>
The second PR mentioned improves on this syntax and when merged would mean you can do something more like:
FROM golang:1.7.3 as builder WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/alexellis/href-counter/ RUN go get -d -v golang.org/x/net/html
COPY app.go . RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -a -installsuffix cgo -o app . FROM alpine:latest
RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates WORKDIR /root/ COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/alexellis/href-counter/app . CMD ["./app"]
How can I try it out?
Build Docker from master
You can create a development build of Docker at any time by cloning the docker/docker repository and typing in make tgz
.
The resulting build will create binaries for you in the bundles
folder.
Here's the build steps:
$ git clone https://github.com/docker/docker
$ cd docker
$ make tgz
tgz其实就是tar.gz文件的简写,二者的格式没什么区别
解压命令通常如下
$ tar xvf 压缩文件名
x : 解压缩
v : 动作显示,显示出每个解压出来的文件,如果去掉该参数解压过程会变得快些,只是不显示动作而已
f : 文件 f后面一定跟着压缩文件的名称,例如a.tgz或b.tar.gz等
Let's try the example
Launch Docker within the container you built above:
- These steps prepare the new Docker version for use:
$ docker run -v `pwd`/bundles:/go/src/github.com/docker/docker/bundles --privileged -ti docker-dev:master bash
The Docker development build creates an image called docker-dev
. You can actually run Docker inside this image, which is what we'll do below:
$ export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`/bundles/latest/dynbinary-daemon:`pwd`/bundles/latest/binary-client/
$ dockerd &
- Now still within the container, clone my repository and initiate a build using the multi-step Dockefile:
$ git clone https://github.com/alexellis/href-counter
$ cd href-counter
$ docker build -t href-counter . -f Dockerfile.multi
the
-f
flag allows you to specify the name of a different Dockerfile.
Now run the Docker image:
$ docker run -e url=https://www.alexellis.io/ multi
{"internal":9,"external":5} $ docker run -e url=https://www.docker.com multi
{"internal":97,"external":38}
Compare the differences in size between the resulting image and what we would have had if we used FROM golang
:
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
multi latest bcbbf69a9b59 6 minutes ago 10.3MB
golang 1.7.3 ef15416724f6 4 months ago 672MB
Wrapping up
The builder pattern was effective as a work-around and would have created a binary of a similar size, but it was hard to maintain and very hard to use with Docker's automated build system.
If you need a small image - you should follow the builder pattern for now using the example above.
Once the feature is released through the stable channel and made available for auto-builds on the Hub/Cloud I would switch over.
Follow me on Twitter for more Docker news and tutorials.
Here's a quick blog showing how Multi-stage builds supersede the Builder pattern in @docker with @tonistiigi - https://t.co/r4mxzbCVzH
— Alex Ellis (@alexellisuk) March 24, 2017
Recent blog posts:
Update:
If you'd like to save time building Docker on your own machine, I've submitted a lab to birthday.play-with-docker.com (which runs Docker in a webpage, with the master build) in the Intermediate section:
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