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This has been a long time coming. The 12-factors have guided us well, but the ecosystem has changed. The point we're at now reminds me a lot of Java in 2010. Everything was complex…

where?

Give this a watch, and I think it may change your mind on some these points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofH9_sE2qy0

I think this is exactly why people should use Buildpacks over Dockerfiles. I've seen so many Dockerfiles that are wrong, or even introduce security problems.

Yes. The output of buildpacks is an OCI image (Docker image) that works with the container runtime(s) in Kubernetes

To you first point, there's probably no example of a Buildpack because (unlike Dockerfile) most Buildpack users don't write their own. They are reuseable. I'm not sure why the auth…

The Ruby buildpack shown in the example installs Node.js for you. A developer doesn’t even need to be aware that it’s required to precompile assets.

There's some more detail here: https://buildpacks.io/docs/

I'm the Java Languages Owner at Heroku. While I can't reveal in full detail why we do (or do not) officially support a particular language, I can say that it has nothing to do with…

LinuxKit (as I understand it) is for building the OS itself. Buildpacks are a higher level abstract for building a complete application image (with the emphasis on application). Th…

This article covers the basics: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/java-memory-issues