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Building a Cloud Native Buildpack Isn’t as Hard as You Think

Maybe you’ve heard that many companies today are transitioning to, or have already transitioned to, a container-based platform like Kubernetes. With this movement comes the need to containerize your applications, new and old. Buildpacks provide a seamless mechanism for doing that without Dockerfiles. Paketo Buildpacks is a community-driven project that provides Cloud Native Buildpacks implementations for the most popular languages. Buildpacks provide great out-of-box support for many languages, but what if you need a buildpack that doesn’t exist yet? …

Introducing a re-architected .NET Core Buildpack!

On behalf of the Paketo contributors, I’m pleased to unveil the new and improved .NET Core Buildpack! With the release of Paketo .NET Core Buildpack 0.1.0, you’ll enjoy a host of new features and improvements that will make containerizing your .NET apps a breeze. 🍃 With the new buildpack, you can: Build .NET 5 apps Build your app from source code, from a framework-dependent deployment (FDD), from a framework-dependent executable (FDE), or from a self-contained deployment Build Visual Basic apps Have source code removed from final app image. …

2021 Paketo Buildpacks Roadmap

We’re not even at the one year anniversary of the Paketo Buildpacks launch, but we’ve already got so much to celebrate 🎉. 2020 was a busy year for the Paketo Buildpacks core development team. Looking back on the last year, a few highlights stand out: Establishing our project governance and RFC process Moving all project tooling to Github-based workflows Building out a foundational set of buildpacks for some of the most popular languages including Java, Node. …

Paketo Buildpacks Hot Topic at Cloud Foundry Summit

Paketo Buildpacks were a hot topic at the recently concluded Cloud Foundry Summit, the first virtual Summit run by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. The Summit featured project updates, particularly in the Kubernetes space, including a talk on Paketo Buildpacks. Dan Thornton, an engineer contributing to the Paketo Buildpacks project, maintained that they are the ideal tool for transforming app source code into container images. So, we wanted to share Dan’s talk here and dive into a Q&A of all of the questions we didn’t get to answer during this session. …

Building apps for Kubernetes? Get to Know Paketo Buildpacks.

I’m excited to announce the launch of Paketo Buildpacks, a collection of Cloud Native Buildpacks for the most popular languages and frameworks. Paketo Buildpacks make it easy for you to build and patch containerized apps so that you can spend all your time on the thing that matters the most… developing great software. First off… what are Paketo Buildpacks, and why would I use them? Buildpacks provide a higher-level abstraction for building apps …