Can we add buildx support?

[hansbogert]

I'm starting to rely on docker buildx for its intermediate stages cache support, can we add buildx support to this image?

[tmaier]

What do you mean exactly? Can you provide a link? What is missing?

[hansbogert]

sorry, I've been exposed to it too much. But it's an installed-by-default option for about any docker distribution (docker desktop, docker through APT/deb, etc), except when you use their own docker image.

Please see https://docs.docker.com/buildx/working-with-buildx/

[tmaier]

Hi @hansbogert,

I am undecided. Somehow I would like the users of this image to have a say in this. But that kind of voting feature does not exist.

Can you prepare a Pull Request so that we see the impact from image size perspective and if it works for all versions supported

[petski]

As a FYI, someone is working to get buildx and compose (docker compose v2) part of the official docker images. See docker-library/docker#361

[tmaier]

@petski this is great news!
I also tested it. It works.

This means we can deprecate this Docker image here. See 78b050b