Open Source Summit Europe 2022

In AppsFlyer’s effort to provide a smooth internal developer experience, we needed to offer our engineers a standard and structured way to build OCI images, regardless of build environment and programming language. Enter Buildpacks. At the same time, changing build systems carries an immense amount of risk - risk we wanted to mitigate at all costs. In this talk, we’ll discuss how we prepared our environment, and utilized Buildpacks to create OCI images that work seamlessly with our current system. Along the way, we’ll highlight how we use an adjustable post-build step to ensure our images fit with the current stage of our deployment system, and to enable a gradual move to container (and cloud native) best practices. We will show how you too can move gradually, seamlessly and safely into modern Container building techniques.