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Codefresh facilitates everything that is related to restoring the best suited image back to the Docker daemon as part of the build step.

This ensures that your build will be able to run as fast as possible.

Docker builds can be optimized by caching images and layers used during the build.

Sometimes there might be reasons to wanting to disable this ability.

Codefresh provides two different options to do this.

Codefresh facilitates two kinds of caches:

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1. Configure a specific build to manually disable the cache only for a single execution

1. Docker engine (local) cache: building images that reuse unchanged layers, or uses`FROM` statements for images that are already exists, will benefit from the docker engine cache, just as when building in your local workstation. Codefresh takes care of persisting the cache and making it availble for the current pipeline execution environment.

2. Last build cache: Codefresh will intelligently pull the last image built for the cuurent project/branch/commit and will use that when building the image using Docker's`--cache-from` build option. This optimization also reduces build times for most scenarios.

You can choose to opt out of each cache mechanism, both at the step definition level, or temporarily at the build execution level.

In the Build execution dialog, click on the "Advanced Options" button, under "More Options", select the appropriate checkbox to ignore docker cache or cf cache.

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2. Pass the no_cache field to the[build step]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/codefresh-yaml/steps/build-1/).

In the build step YAML, set`no_cache: true` to disable docker local cache, and`no_cf_cache: true` to disable codefresh's additional optimizations such as cache-from.