Hey Circlers (just completely made that up), For those who don’t know, we at CircleCI maintain a fleet of Docker images, which we call Convenience Images, for various languages and databases. These images are designed to run well in a CI environment as opposed to production or local environments. T…

If I want to propose a new image type, is that possible? I currently have built something of cimg/base and want to know if there is a possibility for it to become an officialy convenience image tool: packer

We don’t have a program to accept 3rd party images at this time but it’s something we’re looking into for later this year. If you want to create your own CircleCI-ready image though then you’re on the right track, I’d base it off of cimg/base just like you said. That’s the best way to do it.

[image] FelicianoTech: In short, using these new images will lead to … a higher likelihood that the image is already cached on the host. Can you explain why this would be true? Won’t there still be a large number of different images? Spin up time is often a very big part of a job’s execution…

When a CircleCI build host starts a job with the Docker executor, the Docker image is downloaded. Basically a docker pull. This image then remains cached on the host for a set time. The next-gen Convenience Images are designed to inherit layers from other images whenever possible and for there to be…

Q1) What r your plans for Windows dockerfiles? I have been using Docker on Windows and they seem to work very well - both Linux and Window images. Q2) I am interested in your cimg/python. How do we get the right version of Python, and what does a user do to add additional modules, eg pytest etc. Y…

Hi, great questions. There’s no immediate plans but we’re open to feedback. Considering CircleCI has Windows machine/VM images, when would you want to use Docker images on Windows rather then just use the Docker executor or Windows executor? The Docker tag is the version for the image. So for exam…

Thanks for your fast response and keeping an open mind. I’ll try to answer from my point of view and hope more evidence to support it comes from other users, etc. There’s no immediate plans but we’re open to feedback. … The technical advantages of Windows Dockerfile over Windows VM are the same …

I’m getting a lot of notices to move to next gen images and that the legacy images will be deprecated, but there’s still no MySQL image listed. Are you not planning to provide one?

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The Base and Go images have now been promoted to GA. They are stable and ready to go for everyone!

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