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                Speed up your multistage builds in GitHub Actions
              
          
    Caching multi-stage builds in GitHub Actions

Caching Docker builds in GitHub Actions is an excellent article by @dtinth which analyses various strategies for speeding up builds in GitHub Actions. The upshot of the article is a fairly decisive conclusion that the best two ways to improve build times are:


Build images via a standard docker build command, while using GitHub Packages' Docker registry as a cache = Longer initial build but fastest re-build times.


Build your images via docker integrated BuildKit (DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build), while using a local registry and actions/cache to persist build caches = Fastest initial build but slightly longer re-build times.


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