Building contaienrs at scale using buildpacks

A Project lightning talk by heroku and the cncf buildpacks.

How and why buildpacks?

  • What: A simple way to build reproducible contaienr images
  • Why: Scale, Reuse, Rebase
  • Rebase: Buildpacks are structured as layers
    • Dependencies, app builds and the runtime are seperated -> Easy update
  • How: Use the PAck CLI pack build <image> docker run <image>