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I noticed docker compose is now telling me I can set COMPOSE_BAKE=true for "better performance".

Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it worth it? I get suspicious when a program tells me "just use this, it has better performance", but it's not the default.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From the way you worded the post, it didn't seem like you had looked into it very much. If you want to compare to similar experiences, this looks to me like Docker's version of a lockfile.

They don't even use the actual word "performance" on any of the doc pages for Bake, so the build output thing is very poorly worded, and it sucks that they feel the need to put it in build output.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

and it sucks that they feel the need to put it in build output.

I agree. I treat that as holy ground. If it doesn't have really large implications, I do NOT want to see it in the output. Reminds me of installing things in npm and seeing all the little 'shoutouts'.