Docker Bake in 2025: The One Build Tool DevOps Teams Are Switching To

Tired of docker build scripts tangled in Bash? I was too.
In 2025, I moved to Docker Bake — and never looked back.

🚀 What changed:

1. Declarative HCL/YAML files instead of fragile shell scripts
2. Native parallel builds with BuildKit
3. Shared caching across services and platforms
4. Matrix builds: Node 18 + Alpine 3.20, Go ARM/x86, dev vs. prod — all in one file
5. Zero-friction integration with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins

🔍 What you'll see inside:

• Tiny Go microservice with under-20MB images
• Raspberry Pi and x86 builds in a single command
• Best practices for caching, inheritance, and multi-arch targets
• Production vs. development targets from the same spec
• CI-ready bake setups in 3 steps
• Bake made my builds faster, cleaner, and easier to debug.
• Try it once, and docker build will feel like writing XML by hand.

👉 Read the full walkthrough and grab real-world examples you can copy today.
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/docker-bake-the-modern-multi-stage-build-standard-in-2025-f8b14471a4cf
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