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Hey pants people! Quick question: Is there a way to make a Docker image inherit from a base image also built by pants? Is this possible if we add a registry name to the image when building?

Ah nevermind, I think I found what I was looking for at the end of this post: <https://blog.pantsbuild.org/optimizing-python-docker-deploys-using-pants/>

Always helps to ask!

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the _Multiple Images and tagging_ only works if you're publishing both your base image and your concrete image through pants. In my case, we couldn't use `pants publish` for our Docker images because our cloud ops team keeps tight control over what gets published to our internal image repo, so I had to rig up some custom plugin code to make it all work.

that blog post doesn’t mention the possibility to use
```ARG BASEIMAGE=some/other/image:target
FROM $BASEIMAGE
...```