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Intro to Cloud Native Buildpacks: Containers for Everyone!

Zander Mackie at All The Talks 2020 - Cloud native/container

Containers are ubiquitous, but writing (and maintaining) Dockerfiles can be tedious, scary, or simply yet-one-more-thing-you-have-to-care-about. Enter, Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB), a CNCF project. The CNB project aims to radically simplify the process of building containers; we call it “Containers for Everyone!” CNB takes the best of developer experience from PaaS platforms like Heroku and Cloud Foundry and combines it with modern container standards to achieve a new paradigm in simplicity and transparency.

Are you a developer who’s taking apps to production, in containers? Are you a DevOps person looking for a new way of building container images for teams? Are you DevSecOps and care about keeping your OS base images and applications up to date or what goes into your container images? Come to this talk to learn how Cloud Native Buildpacks can help you build Docker images without Dockerfiles, keep everything up to date, and keep your security and DevOps folks happy. (No Docker experience required).

Zander Mackie
Software Engineer, VMware

Zander Mackie is a software engineer at VMware, working in open source container technology. Previously he worked at Pivotal, The New York Times, NBC Universal, Shutterstock, and a couple startups. He was lucky enough to attend The Recurse Center in 2016. In a past life, Zander’s had lots of different jobs (cheese-maker, photo-assistant, video editor, hospice cook); ask him about it! He loves fresh air and long walks, so software engineering and quarantine are a natural fit.