With the growth in the use of containers, the need to bundle your application into a container has never been stronger. Many Red Hat customers will be familiar with Source-to-Image (S2I) as an easy way to build container images from application source code. While S2I is a convenient way to build images on Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat works to support our customers when using a variety of approaches, and we’ve recently seen an increasing interest in building applications using Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Buildpacks.
Below is a list of essential Buildpacks resources from our Node.js team at Red Hat.
Getting Started Building
With any new topic, it is important to start at the beginning. For those of you who are curious to find out more about buildpacks, what they are and how to get started, the below article will help with that:
Getting Started Running
Once you are familiar with how to build containers with Buildpacks, it is time to start running them on a cluster. The below article has great information on this:
A Little History
For those that want to learn more about the history of the teams at Red Hat got involved with the project and how they are pushing this forward, this last article is for you:
Conclusion
As always if you want to learn more about what the Red Hat Node.js team is up to check these out:
https://developers.redhat.com/topics/nodejs
https://github.com/nodeshift/nodejs-reference-architecture
https://developers.redhat.com/e-books/developers-guide-nodejs-reference-architecture
