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by nailer
2817 days ago
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Yes, Buildpacks are trusted maintained bash scripts. In that way, as you mention, they're better than random bash scripts. That doesn't make them novel. I know you said nothing is new, and I presume you mean completely new, but there's not a single novel thing about this. Another poster on this thread is using the term 'invented'. Another is describing them as a 'technology' that needs to be understood. Describing a bootstrap script this way sets an incredibly low bar for DevOps. |
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The Java buildpack is a Ruby application with a modular dependency download/caching subsystem to enable both internet-connected and air-gapped enviroments, hundreds of unit and integration tests, support for runtime injection and configuration modification for TLS certificates, support for several languages including Scala , Groovy, Clojure, support for several package types, several app runtimes, etc. https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack
The PHP buildpack is a Python application with a modular dependency download/caching subsystem to enable both internet-connected and air-gapped environments, hundreds of unit and integration tests, support for easily configuring many different PHP extensions, libraries and modules, and extension points to customize the container staging behavior. https://github.com/cloudfoundry/php-buildpack
For developers, this saves a lot of time, effort, and variance for staging their containers.
For operators, this enables a control point that simplifies CI/CD pipelines dramatically and standardizes a means of containerization across projects.
It might not be for everyone, but I think it's a useful alternative to Dockerfiles.