4 engineers on Hacker News describe using BuildKit first-hand: 1 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Vanilla docker/buildkit works just fine as we use it in Stagex”
endorse · production · lrvick · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Once we integrated build kit it made our build times very similar, but this was only possible because we had tooling to orchestrate build kit on top of podman.”
mixed · production · kodah · 2022-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our original version of that system used vanilla BuildKit + EBS volumes + orchestration, nowadays we've replaced EBS”
neutral · production · jacobwg · 2024-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The basic approach is to have a buildkit engine run as a daemonset on the cluster”
neutral · production · SOLAR_FIELDS · 2023-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?