feat: Add BuildKit support for image builds via a containerized Docker CLI - #1761
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Adds `BuildKitImageFromDockerfileBuilder`, an opt-in image builder that builds a Dockerfile with BuildKit (`docker buildx build`) instead of the Docker Engine API, following the pattern that the Compose support uses. The Docker CLI runs inside a container. The build context is copied into that container, and the Docker socket is mounted to interact with the Docker host. The build itself runs in the BuildKit instance of the Docker daemon (the default `docker` Buildx driver), which is also where the build cache lives. The result is written to the image store of the Docker daemon (`--load`), so everything that follows the build behaves as before. `ImageFromDockerfileBuilder` and the Docker Engine API path stay the default and are unchanged. Closes testcontainers#1247 Closes testcontainers#1406
Addresses the findings of a review of the BuildKit image builder. The Docker CLI container is an implementation detail of the image build. It no longer shares the Resource Reaper session of the image, which left a stopped container behind with `WithCleanUp(false)`, the very configuration the builder recommends to keep the built image. The container carries the build secrets, so it is now always removed. A failure to start the Docker CLI container is only reported as a Docker socket that cannot be mounted if the Docker daemon responded with a mount error that names the Docker socket. Every other failure, such as a Docker CLI image that cannot be pulled, propagates unchanged instead of pointing at `TestcontainersSettings.DockerSocketOverride`. The Docker CLI container does not log to the configured logger anymore, which kept the Docker CLI command, including the build arguments, out of the log output at information level. The image build command (with the build argument values redacted) and the build output are logged at debug level instead, which is where the Docker Engine API image builder logs its build output too. `WithCreateParameterModifier` translates `NoCache`, `Pull`, `NetworkMode`, `ShmSize`, `ExtraHosts` and `CacheFrom` into their Docker CLI arguments. An image build parameter that the Docker CLI does not provide an equivalent argument for is logged as a warning instead of being dropped silently. The builder validates the file of a build secret and rejects an SSH agent path that contains a comma, which the Docker CLI cannot encode, before it starts the Docker CLI container.
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WalkthroughAdds a Docker CLI-based BuildKit image builder. The change supports secrets, SSH agents, platforms, parameter translation, validation, logging, documentation, lifecycle integration, and unit and integration tests. ChangesBuildKit image building
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Builder as BuildKitImageFromDockerfileBuilder
participant Image as BuildKitDockerImage
participant Client as TestcontainersClient
participant CLI as Docker CLI container
participant Docker as Docker daemon
Builder->>Image: Build configured image
Image->>Client: Request BuildAsync
Client->>CLI: Mount context, secrets, SSH paths, and socket
CLI->>Docker: Run docker buildx build --load
Docker-->>CLI: Load built image
CLI-->>Client: Return build output and status
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In `@docs/api/create_docker_image.md`:
- Line 112: Update the BuildKitImageFromDockerfileBuilder documentation at
docs/api/create_docker_image.md lines 112-112 and 186-186 to state that its
configuration and members match ImageFromDockerfileBuilder except that
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A parameter modifier (`WithCreateParameterModifier`) can reset the tags, the build arguments and the labels of the image build parameters. The Docker CLI command does not enumerate them then, consistent with the extra hosts and the cache sources. Documents that a comma-separated platform builds a manifest list, which the containerd image store loads and the classic image store does not.
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291-292: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse the
ContainerBuilderconstructor that takes the image.The parameterless constructor is obsolete and will be removed. The repository suppresses
CS0618, so this call does not currently produce an effective warning or fail warning-as-error builds. Replace it before the constructor is removed.- var cliBuilder = new ContainerBuilder() - .WithImage(configuration.CliImage) + var cliBuilder = new ContainerBuilder(configuration.CliImage) .WithDockerEndpoint(configuration.DockerEndpointAuthConfig)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟠 Major · Keep base-image cache checks platform-aware. · TestcontainersClient.cs:500
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winKeep base-image cache checks platform-aware.
A repository tag does not identify its platform.
Image.CreateAsyncpasses the platform separately, but this cache check only examinesRepoTags. If an amd64 base image is cached and a BuildKit build targets arm64, this skips the required arm64 pre-pull. Buildx can then resolve the base image without the test-host credential configuration, which breaks private or target-only base images.Pull platform-specific images even when the tag exists locally, or inspect the cached image platform before skipping the pull.
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🟠 Major · Remove direct Docker socket access from the CLI container. · BuildKitImageOperations.cs:309
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CWE: CWE-250Remove direct Docker socket access from the CLI container.
CliImageis publicly configurable, and the CLI container receives the Docker socket before executing the build command. A compromised or caller-selected image can use the Docker API to create privileged containers or mount host paths. Read-only access to the socket does not restrict Docker API operations.Use a trusted build service or a socket proxy with an explicit BuildKit operation allowlist. Restrict accepted CLI images to trusted, digest-pinned images.
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In `@src/Testcontainers/Clients/BuildKitImageOperations.cs`:
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WithMount and UnixSocketMount. Route build operations through a trusted build
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configurable CliImage is trusted and digest-pinned before execution.
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What does this PR do?
Adds opt-in BuildKit support for image builds through a new
BuildKitImageFromDockerfileBuilder, following the same pattern as the Compose support in #1750: a keep-alivedocker:*-clicontainer, the Docker socket bind-mounted read-only via the existingUnixSocketMount, the build context copied in with resource mapping, anddocker buildx build --loadinvoked withExecAsync.Because the default buildx
dockerdriver runs the build in the host daemon's BuildKit,--loadwrites the result straight to the daemon's image store, so everything downstream — image name resolution,WithImage, resource-reaper labels — behaves exactly as it does today. No cache volume is needed: the cache lives in the daemon and outlives the throwaway CLI container.The Engine API path (
POST /build, legacy builder) remains the default and is untouched.Public API
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IBuildKitImageFromDockerfileConfigurationandBuildSecret. The rest of the surface is the sharedIImageFromDockerfileBuilder<T>, so the two builders line up.IImageFromDockerfileConfiguration's implementation lostsealed(it staysinternal) so the BuildKit configuration can derive from it rather than duplicating every member. This follows existing precedent in the repo —ComposeConfiguration,SocatConfigurationandPortForwardingConfigurationall derive from an unsealedContainerConfiguration.Existing
IImageFromDockerfileConfigurationfields map onto CLI flags:Dockerfile→--file,Tags→--tag,BuildArgs→--build-arg,Labels→--label,Target→--target,Platform→--platform, plus--secret,--ssh,--loadand--progress plain.WithCreateParameterModifiervalues are translated where buildx has an equivalent (--no-cache,--pull,--network,--add-host,--cache-from,--shm-size); a field that is set but has no equivalent logs a warning rather than being dropped silently.Why is it important?
Dockerfiles that need BuildKit currently cannot be built with Testcontainers even when
docker buildsucceeds on the same host. This closes the two open issues that follow from that, and unblocks# syntax=frontends,RUN --mountand platform build args generally:RUN cat <<EOF) silently produces an empty file and the build still reports success; the container then dies withexec format error. A confusing failure mode, because nothing signals that anything went wrong.--secret,RUN --mount=type=secret).Per the discussion in #1756, a socket bind-mount failure throws and names
TestcontainersSettings.DockerSocketOverriderather than falling back to the Engine API builder. A silent fallback would mean heredoc and secrets quietly not working, which is the bug this is meant to fix.Related issues
ImageFromDockerfileBuildervia a containerizeddocker buildxbuilder #1756How to test this PR
The integration tests cover: a heredoc Dockerfile producing the expected file contents and a runnable entrypoint (the #1247 symptom fails this test); build secrets from an in-memory value and from a file, readable at
/run/secrets/<id>duringRUNand absent from both the running filesystem and the built image's history and inspect output; labels, build args and the reaper-session label reaching the image;--target;--platform; a context directory separate from the Dockerfile directory; parameter translation; build-failure messages; and the socket-override error path.The secret test compares a SHA-256 hash inside the
RUNso the plaintext never enters the Dockerfile, then asserts the value is absent fromdocker history --no-truncanddocker image inspect, with a positive assertion on the hash so the check cannot pass vacuously.Four of the tests were also run against the pre-fix source tree to confirm they fail there — they are regression tests, not tests written to fit the implementation.
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No up-front rejection of
npipe://. Compose has no npipe-specific validation or error message (checked #1750 and the currentComposeBuilder/ComposeContainer/UnixSocketMount). This PR reusesUnixSocketMount+TestcontainersSettings.DockerSocketOverridethe same way, and additionally wraps the bind-mount failure at CLI-container start in anInvalidOperationExceptionnamingDockerSocketOverrideandImageFromDockerfileBuilder. There is deliberately no scheme check, since Docker Desktop on Windows with Linux containers works through the daemon-side socket — the same reason Ryuk works there. Only a daemon with no Unix socket listener at all fails, and that is not cleanly detectable up front, so it surfaces at container start. A TCPDOCKER_HOSTwith a socket present works: the mount source is resolved by the daemon, not the client.One deliberate behaviour difference from Compose: the CLI builder container is created with
NullLogger, so it does not logDocker container … created/startedto the caller's logger. That is what keeps--build-argvalues offInformation— the legacy Engine API path never logsImageBuildParametersat all. The build command (with--build-argvalues redacted) and the--progress plainoutput are available atDebug.Builder container lifetime: the CLI container carries the default reaper session labels rather than the image's session id, so it is always removed even under
WithCleanUp(false)— which is what the builder's own validation message recommends for keeping a built image. Tying it to the image's cleanup choice would leave a stopped container holding the mounted secret files.Follow-ups
--loadwrites a single platform to the daemon image store.--sshsupports only the path-based form;--ssh defaultviaSSH_AUTH_SOCKinside the CLI container is not wired up, and an agent socket requires a local daemon since the daemon resolves the bind-mount source.docker-containerdriver or amoby/buildkitcontainer (with a cache volume) would also work where the host has no BuildKit, as raised in [Enhancement]: BuildKit support forImageFromDockerfileBuildervia a containerizeddocker buildxbuilder #1756. This PR starts with the daemon-driver approach.testcontainers/Docker.DotNet(POST /build?version=2&session=<id>plus the gRPC session for filesync, auth and secrets) remains the longer-term option; this is an interim step that does not block it.Summary by CodeRabbit
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