It’s extremely slow to build Docker containers on app platform. My container takes about 2 minutes to build locally, but takes over 30 minutes on app platform. It takes over 10 minutes to install the Ruby bundle and another 5 minutes to install the JS dependencies (from yarn). It’s a bit faster when the layers are cached, but it seems like the cache expires after a day or so, which requires a full rebuild of the docker containers.
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Over year since this question has been posted and over a year since customer service team said we are working on it to improve the performance, sound that digitalocean team slow as well to make improvement same as their service. I thought the issue was in my app and i have tried to deploy a fresh express server with no single extra line code and it is taking over 30 min !!! so disappointed…
As others have mentioned: a deploy of an almost empty project takes 20 minutes. This is a deal breaker.
It took almost a whole work day to debug an error I had in my environment variables because the build process is so slow and I had to run it several times.
Why do the components need to be rebuilt from scratch if a variable with only RUN_TIME scope is changed?
@cbaker any updates on this? Builds that take a minute or 2 on heroku are taking over 30 minutes in app platform. Makes debugging and pushing out fixes a really frustrating experience
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