What is kaniko?

A tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster. kaniko doesn't depend on a Docker daemon and executes each command within a Dockerfile completely in userspace. This enables building container images in environments that can't easily or securely run a Docker daemon, such as a standard Kubernetes cluster.
kaniko is a tool in the Container Tools category of a tech stack.
kaniko is an open source tool with 13.7K GitHub stars and 1.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to kaniko's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses kaniko?

Companies
13 companies reportedly use kaniko in their tech stacks, including Cookielab's stack, Infrastructure, and Botmaker.

Developers
24 developers on StackShare have stated that they use kaniko.
Pros of kaniko
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No need for docker demon
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Automation using jules

Blog Posts

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kaniko's Features

  • Build container images in environments that can't easily or securely run a Docker daemon, such as a standard Kubernetes cluster

kaniko Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to kaniko?
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
Jib
Jib builds Docker and OCI images for your Java applications and is available as plugins for Maven and Gradle.
Makisu
Uber's core infrastructure team developed a pipeline that quickly and reliably generates Dockerfiles and builds application code into Docker images for Apache Mesos and Kubernetes-based container ecosystems. Giving back to the growing stack of microservice technologies, we open sourced its core component, Makisu, to enable other organizations to leverage the same benefits for their own architectures (more here: https://eng.uber.com/makisu/).
Skaffold
Skaffold is a command line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications. You can iterate on your application source code locally then deploy to local or remote Kubernetes clusters. Skaffold handles the workflow for building, pushing and deploying your application. It can also be used in an automated context such as a CI/CD pipeline to leverage the same workflow and tooling when moving applications to production.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
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kaniko's Followers
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