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Documentation Index

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Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

Using Nixpacks (a better alternative to Buildpacks), Hop can automatically detect the language of your app, removing the need to write a Dockerfile for most cases. If a Dockerfile is detected, it will just be built using regular Buildkit.

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Caching

Docker layers are cached to speed up the build process on a per-deployment basis. As of today, we don’t bill for build cache although this may change in the future. Each deployment is assigned a quota of 50GB in build cache - usage can be tracked under the Resources tab within the deployment.

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Environment Variables

Your deployment’s environment variables are injected into each build - any environment variables imported during runtime will also exist during build time.

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Building locally with the CLI

By default, hop deploy spins up a server-side builder instance. To use your local machine’s cache and compute power to build & push your image instead, append the --local flag.

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Customizing Configless Builds

If you don’t want to specify a Dockerfile then you can use the following environment variables to customize your build.