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Level Up with Earthly

Repeatable Builds for a Containerized World

Peter Membrey and Shaun Smith

Earthly is going to change the way the world thinks about building software and managing dependencies. With the ever greater demands being placed on reproducible builds, supply chain integrity and code versioning, Earthly is delivering the powerful tools we will need tomorrow, today. This book will help you use Earthly to get a step ahead.

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Earthly is an amazing build tool, and we really believe it will change the industry. Whilst Earthly is beautifully simple and elegant concept, it's easy to not be able to see the wood for all the trees. This is where this book comes in!

In this book we will do our best to guide you through getting acquainted with Earthly and how to get up and running quickly with it so that you're getting immediate value from your efforts. We take it slow, we don't skip the fine print, and we give as much context as we can.

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Peter Membrey

Peter Membrey is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered IT Professional and a Chartered Engineer with nearly a quarter of a century in the field. He has a doctorate in engineering and a masters degree in IT specialising in Information Security. He's co-authored over a dozen books, a number of research papers on a variety of topics and has recently been awarded the Distinguished Contributor award by the IEEE Computer Society.

These days he is focusing his efforts on creating a more private Internet, raising awareness of STEM and helping people to reach their potential in the field.

His personal site is at https://the.engineer/

Shaun Smith

Contents

Table of Contents

Is this book for me?

Preface

  1. Why should I buy this book now?
  2. How can I be sure that the content is fresh and accurate?
  3. How can I be sure you’ll finish the book?
  4. What sort of feedback do you value?
  5. Why are you writing this book?
  6. Does it replace the online documentation?
  7. The Landscape

Introduction

  1. Can’t I just do it with Docker?
  2. The bad old days
  3. Today
  4. It’s not that bad!
  5. The future (aka Hello Earthly!)
  6. Hang on, how does it see changes?

Getting up and running with Earthly

Overview of Docker concepts

Repeatability and reproducibility

  1. The Basics

Breaking it down

Args, Env and Secrets

Custom commands

  1. Advanced

Running Docker / Docker Compose / Terraform

Earthly accounts / orgs

Cloud Secret Storage

Remote Caching

Building with artifacts / Targeting (mono repo vs poly repo)

Debugging

Running commands locally (with conditionals)

Advanced config settings

Multiplatform builds

  1. Appendices

Contributors

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