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Earthly 0.8
Earthly 0.8
  • 👋Introduction
  • 💻Install Earthly
  • 🎓Learn the basics
    • Part 1: A simple Earthfile
    • Part 2: Outputs
    • Part 3: Adding dependencies With Caching
    • Part 4: Args
    • Part 5: Importing
    • Part 6: Using Docker In Earthly
    • Part 7: Using remote runners
    • Part 8a: Using Earthly in your current CI
    • Final words
  • ⭐Featured guides
    • Rust
  • 📖Docs
    • Guides
      • Importing
      • Build arguments and variables
      • Secrets
      • Functions
      • Using Docker in Earthly
      • Multi-platform builds
      • Authenticating Git and image registries
      • Integration Testing
      • Debugging techniques
      • Podman
      • Configuring registries
        • AWS ECR
        • GCP Artifact Registry
        • Azure ACR
        • Self-signed certificates
      • Using the Earthly Docker Images
        • earthly/earthly
        • earthly/buildkitd
      • ✅Best practices
    • Caching
      • Caching in Earthfiles
      • Managing cache
      • Caching via remote runners
    • Remote runners
    • Earthfile reference
      • Builtin args
      • Excluding patterns
      • Version-specific features
    • The earthly command
    • Earthly lib
    • Configuration reference
    • Examples
    • Misc
      • Alternative installation
      • Data collection
      • Definitions
      • Public key authentication
  • 🔧CI Integration
    • Overview
    • Use the Earthly CI Image
    • Build your own Earthly CI Image
    • Pull-Through Cache
    • Remote BuildKit
    • Vendor-Specific Guides
      • GitHub Actions
      • Circle CI
      • GitLab CI/CD
      • Jenkins
      • AWS CodeBuild
      • Google Cloud Build
      • Bitbucket Pipelines
      • Woodpecker CI
      • Kubernetes
  • ☁️Earthly Cloud
    • Overview
    • Managing permissions
    • Cloud secrets
    • Earthly Satellites
      • Managing Satellites
      • Using Satellites
      • Self-Hosted Satellites
      • GitHub runners
      • Best Practices
      • Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
        • AWS
          • Requirements
          • CloudFormation
          • Terraform
          • Manual
        • VPN
          • Tailscale
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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 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)

See also

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daemon built by the Docker team
Earthfile reference
earthly command reference