Earthly: Containerized Build Pipelines That Combine Dockerfile and Makefile

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Every project I’ve maintained eventually grows a Makefile full of build, test, lint, and release targets that work beautifully on my machine and nowhere else. The targets assume a particular toolchain, a particular OS, particular environment variables. Then CI does something subtly different, and you maintain two parallel descriptions of the same build forever. Earthly is the tool that finally made me delete that duplication. It’s what you get if a Makefile and a Dockerfile had a child who insisted everything run in a container.

Earthly - Tag - vo.rs

Earthly: Containerized Build Pipelines That Combine Dockerfile and Makefile