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BuildKit and Buildx

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Use BuildKit cache mounts for faster builds and buildx for multi-platform ARM64/AMD64 images.

BuildKit and Multi-Platform

# Cache mount — persists across builds
RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip     pip install -r requirements.txt

# Secret mount — not stored in image
RUN --mount=type=secret,id=npmrc,target=/root/.npmrc npm ci
docker build --secret id=npmrc,src=$HOME/.npmrc .

# Multi-platform
docker buildx create --use --name multiarch
docker buildx build   --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64   -t myapp:latest   --push .