Buildpacks vs Dockerfiles
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At Doximity, we are running more and more of our applications and services on Kubernetes. To help our teams move faster, we’ve built a platform around Kubernetes to get code from developer’s laptops into the cloud quickly and safely.
When deploying to our platform, the first step is to containerize the application. Containerizing an application allows us to deploy and run it in a repeatable and reliable manner by packaging the application with its dependencies. Containerization also includes making configuration choices that enable an application to run better in a container environment, like logging to stdout. The outcome of containerizing an application is an image. Once a team has an image, they can run their application on the platform. But how do they get that image?