Hello Buildpacks community,

KubeCon NA begins November 17 and two of our community members, David Freilich and Natalie Arellano, will give a talk on Production CI/CD with CNBs: Tekton and Gitlab and CircleCI. We hope you can join us to watch them!

As usual, here are some updates from the past month.  

Releases

• Lifecycle 0.9.3

• Pack 0.14.2

• Pack 0.15.0-rc1

RFCs

• Finalized RFC-0061: Relax Mixin Contract

• Finalized RFC-0062: Create a Distribution Team

• Finalized RFC-0063: Build/Run image configs MUST contain env.PATH

• Final Comment Period for PR #110: Buildpacks should be able to provide the default process for an app
  

• Final Comment Period for PR #115: Pre-release Versions and Experimental Features for API

• Final Comment Period for PR #116: Add Extension Spec for Builder

Community

• Announcing Google Cloud buildpacks—container images made easy

• Introducing DigitalOcean App Platform: reimagining PaaS to make it simpler for you to build, deploy, and scale apps.

• HashiCorp Waypoint provides a modern workflow to build, deploy, and release across platforms.

Resources

• [blog/video] Comparing containerization methods: Buildpacks, Jib, and Dockerfile by James Ward

• [video] Exploring Buildpacks with Terrence Ryan

• [podcast] Kubernetes Local Dev, Building a PaaS, and Platform Personas with Dave Sudia