On: Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles

[jacques_chester]

You may be thinking of earlier generations.

Cloud Native Buildpacks (1) have reproducibility as a design constraint[0][1] and (2) produce container images as their output.

[0] https://buildpacks.io/docs/reference/reproducibility/

[1] https://medium.com/buildpacks/time-travel-with-pack-e0efd8bf...

[sclevine → jacques_chester]

Additionally, Paketo's buildpacks build reproducible images given the same source code and buildpack versions.