[jacques_chester]

Cartage looks neat (thought Googling it took a few tries).

To me it "looks" like a buildpack, insofar as you are taking something, injecting its dependencies and producing an artifact that's ready to run by itself. If you ever whack bin/detect, bin/compile and bin/release onto it, it'll probably work well enough as a buildpack in connected environments.

[halostatue]

Thanks. We’re going to add Node, Lua, and Elixir plug-ins soon to enable standalone running. The nice thing about making just a tarball at the end of the process is that it should be relatively easy to make anything else (Docker image, AMI, etc.) with that.

https://github.com/crohr/pkgr is the only thing that’s nearly similar, and it does a few things differently than Cartage (https://github.com/KineticCafe/cartage for anyone else following this subthread). Pkgr is a little more opinionated on using the OS environment and making sure that OS-level dependencies are fully declared…I leave that to Ansible, for the most part.

[jacques_chester]

If you had an option to package the runtime, you could use the binary buildpack[0] to run Cartage tarballs.

[0] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/binary-buildpack