Buildpacks standard proposed for CNCF adoption by Heroku and Pivotal

I work at Pivotal and I'm adjacent to the buildpacks team (which I've worked on twice).

I am super excited at the cooperation. Historically, the Heroku buildpacks maintainers and Cloud Foundry buildpacks maintainers operated more or less independently of each other. But there's a shared interest in ensuring the two don't unnecessarily diverge, and also in pooling engineering resources.

The bigger picture is that Buildpacks is a solid solution to the problem of Just Run My Code, Dammit. The standardisation and reference implementations means that you will be able to have a single, smooth onramp for sourcecode to anything that will run a container. Cloud Foundry, Heroku, vanilla Kubernetes, OpenShift, anything. No more Dockerfile maintenance, no more production mystery-meat, no more wondering if you have unpatched CVEs in the OS or runtime binaries.