Searching for Buildpacks with the CNB Registry

Joe Kutner
Buildpacks
Published in
2 min readFeb 25, 2021

The Cloud Native Buildpacks project is excited to announce that the Buildpack Registry is now generally available. You can use the registry to search for buildpacks by name or description. You can also publish your own buildpacks to the registry so that other users in the community can find them.

When you select a buildpack from the list, it will open a page with details about the buildpack and how to use it.

You can add a buildpack to the registry using a Pack CLI command like this:

$ pack buildpack register example/my-cnb

Or you can automate your releases using a supported Github Action.

You can read more about publishing buildpacks to registry in the official Buildpack Registry documentation. You can learn how to automate the publishing process using Github Actions. If you’d like to implement your own private registry or mirror, you can learn more about how the registry’s internals work by reading the Buildpack Registry specification.

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Joe Kutner
Buildpacks

I’m an architect at Salesforce.com who writes about software and related topics. I’m a co-founder of buildpacks.io and the author of The Healthy Programmer.