What It Takes to Make and Maintain a Buildpack and Stacks

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Describes building and running Cloud Native Buildpacks with Pack and petto buildpacks, plus stack automation that detects OS/package updates, dependency automation, layer caching and SBOM generation; supports rebasing without full rebuild, shows pack commands like Pack sbom download, and demonstrates Go-specific caching of build artifacts. Maintains five stacks (growing to nine), eight language families, ~206 repositories with daily CI/dependabot runs, and delivers automated SBOM scanning and quicker rebuilds via reusable layers.

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1. 0:00Introduction to buildpacks
2. 2:33Upgrading and maintaining dependencies
3. 5:05Rebasing and run image upgrades
4. 6:54Caching and build optimization
5. 8:39Build pack design considerations
6. 9:44Software bill of materials
7. 12:09Maintenance complexity and value
8. 13:33Q&A session

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