Building & Managing Container Images at Scale with Cloud Native Buildpacks

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Claims that Cloud Native Buildpacks handle hundreds of thousands of image builds per day for platforms like Heroku and Google Cloud Run and demonstrate it by using the pack CLI to convert two real apps (Spring Boot with Maven, Micronaut with Gradle) into OCI images. The demo shows automatic detection, restores Maven cache so dependencies aren’t re‑downloaded, supports amd64/arm64, produces reproducible layer hashes so layers are shared, and performs a rebase without rebuild to push a patched OS layer (security fix) without rebuilding app layers.

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1. 0:00Introduction and overview
2. 2:16What are build packs
3. 7:17Live demo of build packs
4. 17:13Efficiency and caching
5. 25:22Security at scale
6. 36:55Build pack ecosystem
7. 40:28Closing and Q&A

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