# BuildKit Dockerfile Frontend

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/containerfile/buildkit-frontend/  
**Provider:** Containerfile — https://apis.io/providers/containerfile/  
**Base URL:** https://github.com  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/moby/buildkit/blob/master/frontend/dockerfile/docs/reference.md

BuildKit Dockerfile Frontend is one of 4 APIs that [Containerfile](https://apis.io/providers/containerfile/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include BuildKit, Frontend, and Moby. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a GitHub repository, and an API reference.

Dockerfile and Containerfile parsing in modern Docker is performed by BuildKit's Dockerfile frontend, distributed as a container image (docker/dockerfile). The frontend version is selected via the `# syntax=` directive and adds new features without requiring a BuildKit upgrade.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/moby/buildkit/blob/master/frontend/dockerfile/docs/reference.md
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/moby/buildkit
- **Reference** — https://hub.docker.com/r/docker/dockerfile

## Other Containerfile APIs (3)

- [Containerfile Reference](https://apis.io/apis/containerfile/reference/)
- [Dockerfile Reference](https://apis.io/apis/containerfile/dockerfile-reference/)
- [OCI Image Specification](https://apis.io/apis/containerfile/oci-image-spec/)

## Tags

BuildKit, Frontend, Moby

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