Add support for configuring additional build contexts
laurazard opened this issue · comments
What is the problem you're trying to solve
BuildKit added the --build-context
argument to enable users to provide additional build contexts during a build. More documentation about this can be found here.
Describe the solution you'd like
Being able to configure additional build contexts in a Compose file, such as:
services:
a:
build:
context: .
build_contexts:
- project=[a directory/image/etc.]
Used together with a Dockerfile such as:
# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
FROM alpine:latest
COPY --from=project . /
Additional context
Add any other context about the feature request here.
We should just use contexts
as this is in the build
section already
Sounds good! I was wondering whether having contexts
next to context
would be confusing. I wonder if it should be extra_contexts
or something similar to be more explicit that it's optional (as opposed to context
). WDYT?
additional_contexts
or named_contexts
could indeed avoid confusion.
Also would probably better use of a mapping vs the name=path
syntax introduced by buildx as a command line flag doesn't have much flexibility (we could support both, as we do in a few places already)