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Using Buildpacks to Provision OCI-Compliant Container Images

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Jul. 29, 20 · Tutorial
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It never fails that the CNCF seems be cooking up something interesting in their ecosystem. In my free time, I find myself in a habit of playing in the Sandbox to see what new cutting edge tools I can add to my collection. It is my goal today to introduce you to a project at the Sandbox stage known as "Buildpacks".

What Are Buildpacks?

Buildpacks are an OCI-compliant tool for building applications that serve as a higher-level abstraction as opposed to writing Dockerfiles. The project was spawned by Pivotal and Heroku in 2011 and joined the Cloud Native Sandbox in October 2018. Since then, Buildpacks has been adopted by Cloud Foundry and other PaaS, such as Gitlab, Knative, Deis, Dokku, and Drie.

The project seeks to unify the buildpack ecosystems with a platform-to-buildpack contract that is well-defined and incorporates years of learning from maintaining production-grade buildpacks at both Pivotal and Heroku.

Installing Pack

In this demo, we're going to learn how to use pack and buildpacks to create a runnable app image from source code.

Prerequisites

  • Docker

You can install the most recent version of pack (version 0.6.0) as an executable binary on the following operating systems:

  • macOS.
  • Linux.
  • Windows.

macOS

To install pack on macOS, the easiest way is to use Homebrew:

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brew tap buildpack/tap 
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brew install pack


Linux

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wget https://github.com/buildpacks/pack/releases/download/v0.6.0/pack-v0.6.0-linux.tgz 
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tar xvf pack-v0.6.0-linux.tgz 
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rm pack-v0.6.0-linux.tgz 
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./pack --help


From there, you can copy the executable to a directory like /usr/local/bin or add the current directory to your PATH.

Windows

You can install the Windows executable pack by downloading the Windows ZIP file.

Building an App

Building an app using Cloud Native Buildpacks is very straightforward.

Select a Builder

To build an app, you must first decide what builder you are going to use. A builder includes the buildpacks that will be used as well as the environment for building and running your app.

When using the pack, you can run pack suggest-builders for a list of suggested builders.

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pack suggest-builders


For this tutorial, we’re actually going to use a sample builder, cnbs/sample-builder:bionic, which is not listed as a suggested builder for good reason. It’s a sample.

Build Your App

Now that you’ve decided on what builder to use, we can build our app. For this example, we will use our samples repo for simplicity.

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# clone the repo 
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git clone https://github.com/buildpacks/samples 
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# build the app 
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pack build sample-app --path samples/apps/java-maven/ --builder cnbs/sample-builder:bionic


Tip: If you didn’t want to keep specifying a builder every time you build, you could set it as your default builder by running pack set-default-builder <BUILDER>.

Run it

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docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 sample-app


Congratulations!

The app should now be running and accessible via localhost:8080.

Docker (software) app

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