Docker and Cloud Native Buildpacks
Explore how Docker and Cloud Native Buildpacks simplify container image creation by eliminating the need for Dockerfiles. Understand the buildpack lifecycle and how they streamline secure and optimized image builds in CI/CD workflows to help you focus more on application code.
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What are Docker and Dockerfile?
Docker enables developers to package, share, and run applications easily. As a platform, it has shaped the way we build and run applications, and containers have become the de facto standard for running applications. A Docker container image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application: code, runtime, system libraries, and settings. To create a Docker container image, we need a Dockerfile.
A Dockerfile is a text document that contains the instructions to assemble a Docker image. When we tell Docker to build ...