[JENKINS-57780] Docker Pipeline: Support for Buildkit

Docker Pipeline is one of the most used plugins on our platform it provides really nice functionality such as being able to run commands within containers more effortlessly.

With Docker 18.09 a new feature Buildkit was introduced which can speed up docker builds tremendously. But with docker pipeline this has issues due to the base image being untagged as docker workflow does some processing on top of it.

Related issues:

• Docker: DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 FROM does not pull image: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/39229


• Jenkins: docker agent using a custom Dockerfile is broken with docker buildkit: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-55577

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Originally reported by carlosrodlop, imported from: Docker Pipeline: Support for Buildkit

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): docker-workflow-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 5
  
• watchers: 7
  
• imported: 2025-12-07
  

Docker Pipeline is one of the most used plugins on our platform it provides really nice functionality such as being able to run commands within containers more effortlessly.


With Docker 18.09 a new feature Buildkit was introduced which can speed up docker builds tremendously. But with docker pipeline this has issues due to the base image being untagged as docker workflow does some processing on top of it.


Related issues:




	
Docker: DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 FROM does not pull image: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/39229

	
Jenkins: docker agent using a custom Dockerfile is broken with docker buildkit: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-55577