Definitions
This page presents some common terms used throughout the earthly documentation. Understanding these terms with help you understand how to use earthly.
- Earthly - the build automation system as a whole
earthly- the CLI tool used to interact with Earthly- Earthfile - a file (named literally
Earthfile) which contains a series of targets and their respective recipes - buildkitd - a daemon built by the Docker team and used by Earthly to execute builds. It executes LLB, the same low-level primitives used when building Dockerfiles. The buildkitd daemon is started automatically in a docker container, by
earthly, when executing builds. - recipe - a specific series of build steps
- target - the label used to identify a recipe. 'Target' is also used to refer to a build of a specific target.
- build context - the main directory made available to the build for copying files from
- artifact - a file resulting from executing a target (not all targets have artifacts)
- image - a docker image resulting from executing a target (not all targets have images)
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