The builder

After creating a stack and a buildpack, we are ready to add the third and final Cloud Native Buildpacks component, the builder, to our example repository. The builder specifies which stack and buildpacks are available for use during the building of app images. This abstraction greatly simplifies the CNB [...]

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The buildpack structure

Now that we’ve seen the benefits of the Cloud Native Buildpack framework and created a stack, it’s time to build on the stack functionality by adding a buildpack to our example repository. The buildpack defines and executes the process of creating the final application image, and does so [...]

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Why create custom buildpack components?

Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB) provide a strong value proposition in terms of both industry trends and process advantages. In the previous post, we wrote how buildpacks help to streamline the creation of Docker images.

While the community-provided framework components are excellent, it’s not always feasible or wise [...]

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Why the Cloud Native Buildpacks framework?

When deploying apps to Kubernetes or other container-as-a-service platforms, the proliferation of nonstandard, unauditable containers built manually via Dockerfiles is a real problem. A few products have emerged to solve this problem, among them Cloud Native Buildpacks (СNB). In this blog post, we explore the [...]

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