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2026-07-30 13:55
How I Tamed Legacy Docker (v1.29) for Multi-Stage Microservice Builds
The Challenge: Modern Multi-Stage vs. Legacy Daemon
Our goal was straightforward: standardize Dockerfile.base across our active microservices and gateways (auth, user, driver, booking, matching, payment, notification, web-bff, and mobile-bff) to produce consistent :jvm runtime images.
However, legacy Docker v1.29.2 presented three hard constraints:
No BuildKit Support: Modern cachin...