Everyone knows the benefits of docker, building containers from a dockerfile is lit asf🥵 in terms of productivity, we can build and distribute applications as a piece of cake.
Despite this developers must have a knowledge in detail of how the commands in a Dockerfile relate to Docker layers and the circumstances under which layers can, and can not, be reused.
Buildpacks abstract away much of the deeply understanding required to build a Docker image with battle-tested scripts leveraging advanced features like volumes to build images swiftly and wisely.
Okay, I get it! But show us why we should believe you 🤨
- Buildpacks is a cncf projet;
- Productivity: Removing a lot of onboarding friction for teams looking to move their applications in terms of a previous knowledge in docker;
- Security: Many modern applications include dozens, if not thousands, of dependencies that perform many standard plumbing and infrastructural concerns;
- Performance: Buildpacks are smarter in the way they handle application dependencies, Writing a Dockerfile that ensures that rebuilt images do so quickly and efficiently might as well be an "occultism art" 🧙♂️, Buildpacks encode this knowledge into their implementation.
- It's not only for Docker: Buildpacks embrace the OCI format, so feel free to use some Podman, Containerd or RunC;
If you have that doubt and want to know how to implement, take a look at this amazing article by Matthew Casperson where he builds a node application and goes from docker to buildpacks.
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but still, using a private golang module has not supported yet