# Deploying to production in \<5m with our hosted container builder

DevFeed: [Deploying to production in \<5m with our hosted container builder](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/deploying-to-production-in-5m-with-our-hosted-container-builder-11729.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/container-builder>)

Author: Lawrence Jones

Published: 2021-11-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [build times](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-times.md>), [Dockerfile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dockerfile.md>), [Docker Image](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker-image.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>)

Tags: [base-images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/base-images.md>), [build-times](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-times.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [docker-image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker-image.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [reduce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reduce.md>), [registry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/registry.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>), [time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how incident.io reduced Docker build times from inconsistent peaks of about 10 minutes to roughly 3 minutes, helping deployments reach production faster. It describes their Heroku and CircleCI deployment setup and explains how Docker layer caching, checksums, and pinned base images can avoid repeating work.

## Source excerpt

Fast build times have a number of benefits, from reliability to developer happiness. We reduces our time to deploy to <5, and it's glorious.