- name: Create manifest list and push
        working-directory: ${{ runner.temp }}/digests
        run: |
          docker buildx imagetools create $(jq -cr '.tags | map("-t " + .) | join(" ")' <<< "$DOCKER_METADATA_OUTPUT_JSON") \
            $(printf '${{ env.REGISTRY_IMAGE }}@sha256:%s ' *)

      - name: Inspect image
        run: |
          docker buildx imagetools inspect ${{ env.REGISTRY_IMAGE }}:${{ steps.meta.outputs.version }}
```

### With Bake

It's also possible to build on multiple runners using Bake, with the
[bake action](https://github.com/docker/bake-action).

You can find a live example [in this GitHub repository](https://github.com/crazy-max/docker-linguist).

The following example achieves the same results as described in
[the previous section](#distribute-build-across-multiple-runners).

```hcl
variable "DEFAULT_TAG" {
  default = "app:local"
}

// Special target: https://github.com/docker/metadata-action#bake-definition
target "docker-metadata-action" {
  tags = ["${DEFAULT_TAG}"]
}

// Default target if none specified
group "default" {
  targets = ["image-local"]
}

target "image" {
  inherits = ["docker-metadata-action"]
}

target "image-local" {
  inherits = ["image"]
  output = ["type=docker"]
}

target "image-all" {
  inherits = ["image"]
  platforms = [
    "linux/amd64",
    "linux/arm/v6",
    "linux/arm/v7",
    "linux/arm64"
  ]
}
```

```yaml
name: ci

on:
  push:

env:
  REGISTRY_IMAGE: user/app

jobs:
  prepare:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      matrix: ${{ steps.platforms.outputs.matrix }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Create matrix
        id: platforms
        run: |
          echo "matrix=$(docker buildx bake image-all --print | jq -cr '.target."image-all".platforms')" >>${GITHUB_OUTPUT}

      - name: Show matrix
        run: |
          echo ${{ steps.platforms.outputs.matrix }}

      - name: Docker meta
        id: meta
        uses: docker/metadata-action@v5
        with:
          images: ${{ env.REGISTRY_IMAGE }}

      - name: Rename meta bake definition file
        run: |
          mv "${{ steps.meta.outputs.bake-file }}" "${{ runner.temp }}/bake-meta.json"

      - name: Upload meta bake definition
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: bake-meta
          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/bake-meta.json
          if-no-files-found: error
          retention-days: 1

  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs:
      - prepare
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        platform: ${{ fromJson(needs.prepare.outputs.matrix) }}
    steps:
      - name: Prepare
        run: |
          platform=${{ matrix.platform }}
          echo "PLATFORM_PAIR=${platform//\//-}" >> $GITHUB_ENV