Using the Paketo nginx buildpack to build an nginx Docker image

Grig Gheorghiu
Towards Dev
Published in
5 min readMar 18, 2021

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Cloud Native Buildpacks are a modern way of creating container images without a Dockerfile. They work by inspecting the source code and applying industry best practices in running build scripts for that particular language, then packaging up the build artifacts into an OCI compatible container image. This method is known in the industry as “source to image”.

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