Cloud Native Buildpacks · Cloud Native Buildpacks

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Learn how to use buildpacks to build your apps without writing a Dockerfile.
Create custom buildpacks to support your language, framework, or toolchain.
Integrate buildpacks into your platform to enforce security and compliance at scale.
Balanced control between App Devs and Operators.
Ensure apps meet security and compliance requirements.
Perform upgrades with minimal effort and intervention.
Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs) transform your application source code into container images that can run on any cloud. With buildpacks, organizations can concentrate the knowledge of container build best practices within a specialized team, instead of having application developers across the organization individually maintain their own Dockerfiles. This makes it easier to know what is inside application images, enforce security and compliance requirements, and perform upgrades with minimal effort and intervention.
The CNB project maintains a set of specifications and tooling that make it possible to write buildpacks and orchestrate them together in a build system. Additionally, community providers such as Google, Heroku, and the Paketo project maintain buildpacks for a wide variety of language families, and you can discover even more by searching the buildpack registry.
The fastest way to try Cloud Native Buildpacks is via the pack CLI.
Try out our tutorial to get started quickly!
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