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Containers and FreeBSD: Cloud Native Buildpacks

Contact: Robert Gogolok <gogolok@gmail.com>

Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs) transform application source code into container images. Those images can run on any cloud. With buildpacks, organizations can concentrate the knowledge of container build best practices within a specialized team, instead of having application developers across the organization individually maintain their own Dockerfiles.

My goal for this quarter was to enable building the tool pack on FreeBSD.

With the following changes, it is now possible to compile pack on FreeBSD:

The next steps are:

  • Provide missing FreeBSD functionality to lifecycle and pack.

  • Further investigate FreeBSD as a build target in lifecycle.

  • Provide lifecycle and/or pack via FreeBSD ports.

  • Investigate the idea of FreeBSD buildpacks for some popular languages, similar to paketo buildpacks.


Last modified on: April 15, 2025 by Robert Gogolok