ko-build/docs/advanced/limitations.md

# Limitations

`ko` works best when your application has no dependencies on the underlying image.

This means `ko` is ideal when you don't require [cgo](https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/cgo), and builds are executed with `CGO_ENABLED=0` by default.

To install other OS packages, make those available in your [configured base image](../../configuration).

`ko` only supports Go applications.
For a similar tool targeting Java applications, try [Jib](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib).
For other languages, try [apko](https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko) and [melange](https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange).
Move docs to ko.build (#749) * Move docs to ko.build * rm ko_deps.md * remove trailing whitespace * add go-import meta tag * update mkdocs.yml * update mkdocs.yml * remove duplicate main.html * update go.sum 2022-09-30 15:04:37 -04:00			`# Limitations`

			`ko` works best when your application has no dependencies on the underlying image.

			This means `ko` is ideal when you don't require [cgo](https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/cgo), and builds are executed with `CGO_ENABLED=0` by default.

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Move docs to ko.build (#749) * Move docs to ko.build * rm ko_deps.md * remove trailing whitespace * add go-import meta tag * update mkdocs.yml * update mkdocs.yml * remove duplicate main.html * update go.sum 2022-09-30 15:04:37 -04:00
			`ko` only supports Go applications.
			`For a similar tool targeting Java applications, try [Jib](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib).`
			`For other languages, try [apko](https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko) and [melange](https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange).`