Cloud Native Buildpacks - bond between App Devs and DevOps
Learn how Cloud Native Buildpacks can help both App Developers and DevOps teams deliver applications to productions faster, with less toil and better maintainability.
Minimize number of layers ◦ Leverage build cache ◦ … ▪ App specific best practices ◦ Use JDK during build, JRE during run ◦ Cache node_modules ◦ Memory allocation ◦ … ▪ Not easy to reuse / compose logic into multiple applications Workflow: Containerized - Building 6
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the source code ▪ For the first buildpack group that passes detection, executes each buildpack’s build binary, in order ▪ build gathers dependencies, compiles app (if needed), and sets launch command </> Yarn CNB build Node CNB build
Build-time environment ▪ Run-time environment build image run image stack Builder: complete context for building ▪ Contains buildpack binaries ▪ Contains lifecycle binaries ▪ Image based on build image from stack ▪ Public builders by Google, Heroku, Paketo build image lifecycle buildpack C buildpack B buildpack A
C buildpack B buildpack A builder image </> source run image ... dependencies app app image platform ▪ Gather the source code and builder ▪ Execute the lifecycle in container
app image’s stack (i.e. run image) without need to rebuild ▪ Remote registry layer manipulation enables update without downloading app image (rebase happens in seconds!) ▪ ABI guarantee: app behavior is preserved run image ... dependencies app