Dev tools · September 25, 2020
Earthly
Build anything via containers
Earthly launched on September 25, 2020 with 107 votes, #343 of 3,898 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
What it does
Earthly builds are self-contained, isolated and reproducible. It's like Makefile and Dockerfile had a baby. Replace the collection of bash scripts, make files and docker files in your project with a simple Earthfile.
Turn your AGENTS.md, engineering standards, and process docs into deterministic enforcement in AI authoring loops and on PRs — in minutes, not quarters.
Turn eng wikis, AI prompts, standards, AGENTS.md, infra rules, checklists, and compliance into deterministic PR and AI-level enforcement in minutes , not quarters Broadcasting standards through every channel and verifying adherence by hand was never going to scale . Describe any standard, process, or incident response. Lunar turns it into an enforced guardrail across every repo, in minutes. Postmortem finding, compliance mandate, or zero-day. In plain language. Deterministic enforcement for developers and AI agents. Centrally instrumented, gradually rolled out, audit-ready by default. Guardrails run as code, not prompts. Same input, same output, every time. Trustworthy enough to actually…from earthly.dev
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