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What is BuildKit, and how does it differ from the legacy builder?

BuildKit is Docker's modern build engine, enabled by default since Docker 23, offering features like parallel stage execution, better cache management (including cache mounts and remote cache import/export), and improved build secret handling — all meaningfully faster and more capable than the legacy sequential builder.

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