Why is there no build context for base-image?

[ShrirajHegde]

In base-image service in docker-compose, why doesn't base-image have a context?

Wouldn't adding the context make it easy to build and run the services with just:

docker compose up -d --build

Without requiring an extra build step?

[tropicoo]

Base image needs to be built firstly. It’s used in other images.

[ShrirajHegde]

Ah, okay.

Why not provide an official image? GitHub's workflows can be used to build and publish on every push/release.

Then tools like watchtower can be used to keep it up to date.

If you want, I can create a pull request with workflow implementation.