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I bet a bunch of people have already asked, but is there a docker/docker-compose plugin in the works that I can help with? Big fan of pants so far!

Hey Liam, welcome! Glad to have you.

Indeed, Docker support is one of the most requested features. Tracked by <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/2648>. It was voted relatively highly in a recent round of community voting we did on what people would like the contributors to focus on

One of the most helpful things would be adding your use case to <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/2648>. Docker support seems to mean something different to each person, and pinpointing down what that first class support looks like will be a challenge

Also check out <https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C01CQHVDMMW/p1604541653004100>. A user named Josh was generous to share the docker plugin he recently wrote for his org, which leverages the `package` goal to build images

We’re happy to help with adapting that to your needs until we add first-class support. See <https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/plugins-overview> for the plugin docs and how you’d get this set up.