Buildpacks, or their equivalent, are at the core most modern PaaS solutions. They are the recipe that build the application stack and leave the application developer to only have to care about their code. Buildpacks are open-source and each define a tried-and-tested way to deploy a specific programming language runtime or framework, and configure or compile the application.
With the advent of portable containerization solutions like Docker we're seeing a shift in what PaaS users are expecting the developer's interface to the PaaS to be. They want to bring their pre-built applications and have the option to deploy those same pre-built applications anywhere.
Join us for a panel discussion covering the history of Cloud Foundry's support for buildpacks, it's internal use of container technologies, the future of container format support in the runtime, and a healthy debate about the merits of each approach.
User and evangelist of Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Concourse CI, and BOSH. Author of books Concourse Tutorial and Ultimate Guide to BOSH. Awarded Cloud Foundry Champion 2018. CEO of Stark & Wayne.
Julian Friedman, is an IBMer working on the Cloud Foundry Garden project, which is Cloud Foundry's container technology. Julian previously worked on the Cloud Foundry Runtime team and was the first IBMer to take part in the Cloud Foundry Dojo program. Before Cloud Foundry Julian worked... Read More →
I work on Stackato, a commercial version of the Cloud Foundry open source PaaS project which is also built on-top of Docker. Interested in all things cloud and I can often be seen writing blog posts for ActiveState.
