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Welcome

Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs) transform your application source code into container images that can run on any cloud.

With buildpacks, organizations can concentrate the knowledge of container build best practices within a specialized team, instead of having application developers across the organization individually maintain their own Dockerfiles. This makes it easier to know what is inside application images, enforce security and compliance requirements, and perform upgrades with minimal effort and intervention.

The CNB project was initiated by Pivotal and Heroku in January 2018 and joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an Apache-2.0 licensed project in October 2018. It is currently an incubating project within the CNCF.

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Tutorials

• An App’s Brief Journey from Source to Image - An easy-to-follow introduction to Cloud Native Buildpacks using pack, a command line tool for Cloud Native Buildpacks.
• How to write a basic buildpack - A tutorial walking through the creation of an example NodeJS buildpack.

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Going deeper

See how-to guides, concepts, and tutorials tailored to specific personas:

• App Developers
• Buildpack Authors
• Operators

Tools

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• Pack - {{< summary "/docs/for-platform-operators/how-to/integrate-ci/pack" >}}
• Tekton - {{< summary "/docs/for-platform-operators/how-to/integrate-ci/tekton" >}}

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Reference

Reference documents for various key aspects of the project.

• Configuration - Schema definitions for configuration files.
• Specification - An overview of the Cloud Native Buildpacks API specification.

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Talks

We love talks to share the latest development updates, explain buildpacks basics and more, receive feedback and questions, and get to know other members of the community.

Conference Talks

Check out some of our most recent and exciting conference talks below. More talks are available in our Conference Talks Playlist on YouTube.

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If you are interested in giving a talk about buildpacks, the linked slides may provide a useful starting point. Please feel free to reach out in Slack if you'd like input or help from the CNB team!

Meetings

Feel free to look through the archive of previous community meetings on YouTube. If you would like to attend a Working Group meeting, check out the community page.

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Community and Support

Cloud Native Buildpacks is an incubating project in the CNCF. We welcome contribution from the community. Here you will find helpful information for interacting with the core team and contributing to the project.

Community

The best place to contact the Cloud Native Buildpack team is on the CNCF Slack in the #buildpacks or mailing list.

Contributor's Guide

Find out the various ways that you can contribute to the Cloud Native Buildpacks project using our contributor's guide.

Project Roadmap

This is a community driven project and our roadmap is publicly available on our Github page. We encourage you to contribute with feature requests.

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Community learning resources

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• Cloud Native Buildpacks Course (KodeKloud) - Video-based hands-on introduction to Cloud Native Buildpacks.
• Cloud Native Buildpacks for Beginners (Udemy) - Comprehensive beginner's course on Cloud Native Buildpacks.

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