Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Call, Jan 2022: Feedback Around Buildpacks
Community members recommended additions to the Paketo buildpacks roadmap, including expanding beyond Ubuntu, facilitating security, etc.
The first Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting for 2022 centered around developer experience regarding buildpacks and a summary of updates from the working groups. The call was moderated by Ram Iyengar from the CF Foundation.
Community experience with buildpacks
Buildpacks provide framework and runtime support for applications. By identifying dependencies, buildpacks determine how to configure apps, so they can communicate with bound services. In 2018, Pivotal (now, part of VMware) and Heroku began the Cloud Native Buildpacks project, to create a public, cross-platform build tool serving major modern programming language ecosystems. (You can read more about Cloud Native Buildpacks in this series.)
During the call, various community members expressed how the project has made it easier to develop applications and how helpful the Paketo Slack community have been. They also shared some of the issues they faced while using Cloud Native Buildpacks and inquired about possible features that can be implemented in the future. Lakshmi Narasimhan Parthasarathy, Principal Engineer at Platformatory, raised an issue that was specific to Drupal.
For details, please check out our meeting notes.
