Comparing Cloud Native Buildpacks to Herokuish

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Post by codefinger » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

Comparing Cloud Native Buildpacks to Herokuish
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Re: Comparing Cloud Native Buildpacks to Herokuish

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Post by tyhoff » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

Conveniently timed post! I was just looking at buildpacks.io over the weekend. I was not aware there was a shim to conver Heroku buildpacks to the v3 spec. Neat.

Re: Comparing Cloud Native Buildpacks to Herokuish

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Post by babaganoosh89 » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 10:33 PM UTC

Is there any advantage to buildpacks if you're comfortable making custom Dockerfiles? Seems like Docker would give you a lot more flexibility and clarity over what's deployed.

Re: Comparing Cloud Native Buildpacks to Herokuish

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Post by judge2020 » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC

babaganoosh89 wrote: post #3

Is there any advantage to buildpacks if you're comfortable making custom Dockerfiles? Seems like Docker would give you a lot more flexibility and clarity over what's deployed.

Also portability. It's amazing how universal running Docker containers currently is.

Re: Comparing Cloud Native Buildpacks to Herokuish

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Post by tyhoff » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 11:03 PM UTC

judge2020 wrote: post #4

babaganoosh89 wrote: post #3

Is there any advantage to buildpacks if you're comfortable making custom Dockerfiles? Seems like Docker would give you a lot more flexibility and clarity over what's deployed.

Also portability. It's amazing how universal running Docker containers currently is.

JSYK: the end result of the Buildpacks project is a Docker image. It's just that if someone wants to package up NGINX inside of a container alongside their app, they can just add the buildpack and an nginx.conf rather than going through the complexity of installing and configuring it themselves.