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Cloud Native Buildpacks

Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB) is a technology and project that transforms application source code into OCI-compliant container images without the need for developers to manually write Dockerfiles^[400-devops__03-Containerization__pack.md]. It automates the build process by detecting project dependencies and configurations to assemble the final image^[400-devops__03-Containerization__pack.md].

Overview

The primary purpose of Cloud Native Buildpacks is to simplify the containerization workflow. Instead of maintaining complex Dockerfiles, developers can rely on buildpacks to automatically detect the language and framework of a project (such as Java with Maven or Gradle) and compile the necessary layers into a runnable image^[400-devops__03-Containerization__pack.md].

Core Tools

pack

The pack CLI tool is the primary client maintained by the Cloud Native Buildpacks project for building apps using this specification^[400-devops__03-Containerization__pack.md]. It serves as the interface for invoking buildpacks to create images^[400-devops__03-Containerization__pack.md].

Integration

Cloud Native Buildpacks can be integrated into various CI/CD pipelines and development tools. For example, it is supported by Skaffold as a build strategy^[400-devops__03-Containerization__pack.md].

  • [[Containerization]]
  • [[Docker]]
  • Skaffold

Sources

^[400-devops__03-Containerization__pack.md]