mount wheels from build stage instead of copying them
avoids extra layer of unused wheel files
use mounted pip cache instead of disabling cache - all the benefits of no cache (size), and all the benefits of cache (local rebuild time)
+# syntax = docker/dockerfile:1.3
ARG ALPINE_VERSION=3.15.0
-FROM alpine:${ALPINE_VERSION}
+FROM alpine:${ALPINE_VERSION} AS builder
RUN apk add --no-cache git python3 python3-dev py-pip build-base
+# set pip's cache directory using this environment variable, and use
+# ARG instead of ENV to ensure its only set when the image is built
+ARG PIP_CACHE_DIR=/tmp/pip-cache
+
# build wheels in first image
ADD . /tmp/src
RUN cd /tmp/src && git clean -xfd && git status
-RUN mkdir /tmp/wheelhouse \
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=${PIP_CACHE_DIR} \
+ mkdir /tmp/wheelhouse \
&& cd /tmp/wheelhouse \
&& pip3 install wheel \
- && pip3 wheel --no-cache-dir /tmp/src \
+ && pip3 wheel /tmp/src \
&& ls -l /tmp/wheelhouse
FROM alpine:${ALPINE_VERSION}
@@ -17,12 +23,17 @@ FROM alpine:${ALPINE_VERSION}
# install python, git, bash, mercurial
RUN apk add --no-cache git git-lfs python3 py-pip bash docker mercurial
-# install hg-evolve (Mercurial extensions)
-RUN pip3 install hg-evolve --user --no-cache-dir
+# repeat ARG from above
+ARG PIP_CACHE_DIR=/tmp/pip-cache
# install repo2docker
-COPY --from=0 /tmp/wheelhouse /tmp/wheelhouse
-RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir --ignore-installed --no-deps /tmp/wheelhouse/*.whl \
+# and hg-evolve (Mercurial extensions)
+# mount /tmp/wheelhouse from build stage
+# avoids extra layer when using COPY --from
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=${PIP_CACHE_DIR} \
+ --mount=type=cache,from=builder,source=/tmp/wheelhouse,target=/tmp/wheelhouse \
+ pip3 install --ignore-installed --no-deps /tmp/wheelhouse/*.whl \
+ && pip3 install hg-evolve \
&& pip3 list
# add git-credential helper
