Buildkit Driver released, Pricing Information, Community

A few announcements today:

BuildKit

I'm happy to announce the release of Clipper's BuildKit driver. In testing, I've seen 7x faster build speeds on GitHub Actions (see below for the timings).

It's available now as clipperregistry/buildkit.

See here for a quick guide to using it in GitHub Actions and here for docs.

Some benchmark data, with two scenarios. The first is compiling https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp with CUDA support. The second is installing multiple large Python packages into a venv using uv.

A technical deep dive into how we achieved these speeds is coming soon.

Pricing

I've decided on initial pricing for Clipper:

Non-commercial/trial usage is still free. Pulls being free should make it price competetive with ECR and other usage based registries.

Community

I've created a Discord server at https://discord.gg/WRGkVNpVk7 - come by and chat, I'm happy to answer any questions and help set you up with Clipper.