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Earthly makes use of BuildKit, which essentially executes the build steps in containers. It provides more isolation from the CI runner / dev workstation. Instea
by oftenwrong 3y ago
Earthly makes use of BuildKit, which essentially executes the build steps in containers. It provides more isolation from the CI runner / dev workstation. Instead of having developers manage their own build tools, Earthly makes it easy to have the build definition manage them.
- vlovich123 3y agoAll flakiness I’ve observed in code I’ve written has been dominated by things like “this job isn’t getting enough cpu cycles and the test assertion is too aggressive in such a scenario” or “lack of CPU cycles is triggering a race condition” or “statistical test X isn’t written robustly”. Not sure how containers solve these problems. My point being that this tool solves some problems for some teams and maybe for a lot of teams that struggle with this problem, but hard problems remain and this isn’t a silver bullet for that. You can’t outsource stability of the project-specific test infrastructure which is where most of the cost lies these days I think.