Buildpacks: Everything You Wanted to Know, But were Afraid to Ask

What are buildpacks, why were they created, and how can they can be a better alternative to Dockerfiles? In this session, Catherine is joined by Joe Kutner, Co-Creator of Cloud Native Buildpacks and Developer Experience Architect at Salesforce, to discuss all of that and more. We’ll cover The origins of buildpacks, The problems they solve, How they help teams ship containers faster and more securely, and Where they fit into modern cloud native workflows. If you want to understand how buildpacks can simplify image creation, improve consistency, reduce maintenance, and bring better security and automation to your delivery pipelines, this session is for you. Beginner- and intermediate-friendly. Useful links from the stream: Starting point, Buildpacks docs https://buildpacks.io/docs/ Using buildpacks with Dockerfiles https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-buildp... Project governance https://github.com/buildpacks/communi... Buildpacks community, links https://buildpacks.io/community/ The Healthy Programmer http://healthyprog.com/ BellSoft's Alpaquita buildpacks for Java apps https://bell-sw.com/alpaquita-contain...