Because we want to make sure that in the Docker registry we have _all_ services tagged with the latest commit. For example you might have a Git history like th

Because we want to make sure that in the Docker registry we have _all_ services tagged with the latest commit. For example you might have a Git history like this: * 89abcde Fix bug in service_b * 1234567 Initial commit including service_a and service_b When 89abcde is pushed, the CI rebuilds both service_a and service_b so we can simply "deploy 89abcde" and you always have only one hash for all services, that is also nicely the same hash of the corresponding Git commit. The trick to avoid rebuilding perfectly working services is to use Docker layer caching so that when you build service_a (that hasn't changed) Docker skips all steps and simply adds the new tag to the _existing_ Docker image. The second build for service_a should take about 1 second. In our Docker registry we end up with: service_a:1234567 service_a:89abcde service_b:1234567 service_b:89abcde But the two service_a Docker images are _the same image_, with two different tags.