Part 3: Adding dependencies With Caching

To copy the files for this example ( Part 3 ) run

earthly --artifact github.com/earthbuild/earthbuild/examples/tutorial/go:main+part3/part3 ./part3

Examples in Python, JavaScript and Java are at the bottom of this page.

Dependencies

Now let's imagine that we want to add some dependencies to our app. In Go, that means adding go.mod and go.sum.

./go.mod

module github.com/earthbuild/earthbuild/examples/go

go 1.13

require github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.5.0

./go.sum (empty)

The code of the app might look like this

./main.go

package main

import "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"

func main() {
	logrus.Info("hello world")
}

Now we can update our Earthfile to copy in the go.mod and go.sum.

./Earthfile

VERSION 0.8
FROM golang:1.15-alpine3.13
WORKDIR /go-workdir

build:
    COPY go.mod go.sum .
    COPY main.go .
    RUN go build -o output/example main.go
    SAVE ARTIFACT output/example AS LOCAL local-output/go-example

docker:
    COPY +build/example .
    ENTRYPOINT ["/go-workdir/example"]
    SAVE IMAGE go-example:latest

This works, but it is inefficient because we have not made proper use of caching. In the current setup, when a file changes, the corresponding COPY command is re-executed without cache, causing all commands after it to also re-execute without cache.

Caching

If, however, we could first download the dependencies and only afterwards copy and build the code, then the cache would be reused every time we changed the code.

./Earthfile

VERSION 0.8
FROM golang:1.15-alpine3.13
WORKDIR /go-workdir

build:
    # Download deps before copying code.
    COPY go.mod go.sum .
    RUN go mod download
    # Copy and build code.
    COPY main.go .
    RUN go build -o output/example main.go
    SAVE ARTIFACT output/example AS LOCAL local-output/go-example

docker:
    COPY +build/example .
    ENTRYPOINT ["/go-workdir/example"]
    SAVE IMAGE go-example:latest

For a primer into Dockerfile layer caching see this article. The same principles apply to Earthfiles.

Reusing Dependencies

In some cases, the dependencies might be used in more than one build target. For this use case, we might want to separate dependency downloading and reuse it. For this reason, let's consider breaking this out into a separate target called +deps. We can then inherit from +deps by using the command FROM +deps.

./Earthfile

VERSION 0.8
FROM golang:1.15-alpine3.13
WORKDIR /go-workdir

deps:
    COPY go.mod go.sum ./
    RUN go mod download
    # Output these back in case go mod download changes them.
    SAVE ARTIFACT go.mod AS LOCAL go.mod
    SAVE ARTIFACT go.sum AS LOCAL go.sum

build:
    FROM +deps
    COPY main.go .
    RUN go build -o output/example main.go
    SAVE ARTIFACT output/example AS LOCAL local-output/go-example

docker:
    COPY +build/example .
    ENTRYPOINT ["/go-workdir/example"]
    SAVE IMAGE go-example:latest

More Examples

JavaScript

To copy the files for this example ( Part 3 ) run

earthly --artifact github.com/earthbuild/earthbuild/examples/tutorial/js:main+part3/part3 ./part3

Note that in our case, only the JavaScript version has an example where FROM +deps is used in more than one place: both in build and in docker. Nevertheless, all versions show how dependencies may be separated.

./Earthfile

VERSION 0.8
FROM node:13.10.1-alpine3.11
WORKDIR /js-example

deps:
    COPY package.json ./
    COPY package-lock.json ./
    RUN npm install
    # Output these back in case npm install changes them.
    SAVE ARTIFACT package.json AS LOCAL ./package.json
    SAVE ARTIFACT package-lock.json AS LOCAL ./package-lock.json

build:
    FROM +deps
    COPY src src
    RUN mkdir -p ./dist && cp ./src/index.html ./dist/
    RUN npx webpack
    SAVE ARTIFACT dist /dist AS LOCAL dist

docker:
    FROM +deps
    COPY +build/dist ./dist
    EXPOSE 8080
    ENTRYPOINT ["/js-example/node_modules/http-server/bin/http-server", "./dist"]
    SAVE IMAGE js-example:latest

Java

To copy the files for this example ( Part 3 ) run

earthly --artifact github.com/earthbuild/earthbuild/examples/tutorial/java:main+part3/part3 ./part3

./Earthfile

VERSION 0.8
FROM amazoncorretto:24-alpine3.22
RUN apk add --update --no-cache gradle
WORKDIR /java-example

deps:
    COPY build.gradle ./
    RUN gradle build

build:
    FROM +deps
    COPY src src
    RUN gradle build
    RUN gradle install
    SAVE ARTIFACT build/install/java-example/bin AS LOCAL build/bin
    SAVE ARTIFACT build/install/java-example/lib AS LOCAL build/lib

docker:
    COPY +build/bin bin
    COPY +build/lib lib
    ENTRYPOINT ["/java-example/bin/java-example"]
    SAVE IMAGE java-example:latest

Python

To copy the files for this example ( Part 3 ) run

earthly --artifact github.com/earthbuild/earthbuild/examples/tutorial/python:main+part3/part3 ./part3

./Earthfile

VERSION 0.8
FROM python:3
WORKDIR /code

deps:
    RUN pip install wheel
    COPY requirements.txt ./
    RUN pip wheel -r requirements.txt --wheel-dir=wheels
    SAVE ARTIFACT wheels /wheels

build:
    FROM +deps
    COPY src src
    SAVE ARTIFACT src /src

docker:
    COPY +deps/wheels wheels
    COPY +build/src src
    COPY requirements.txt ./
    RUN pip install --no-index --find-links=wheels -r requirements.txt
    ENTRYPOINT ["python3", "./src/hello.py"]
    SAVE IMAGE python-example:latest