Getting advantage of docker image cache on 1.13
Last week's release of Docker (v1.13) added the cache-from
build flag which
allows the use of local images as build cache and solves the
layer caching issue created by Content Addressability
as I've blogged before.
To use the new feature and take advantage of the caching for faster image builds
first pull the image that you want to base you build upon and then build using
--cache-from
For example:
docker pull myimage:v1.0
docker build --cache-from myimage:v1.0 -t myimage:v1.1 .
You should always keep in mind though that you must fully trust the registry you're …