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Author:     Robert Gogolok <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: 2025-01-01 13:51:31 +0000
Commit:     Lorenzo Salvadore <[email protected]>
CommitDate: 2025-01-01 13:51:31 +0000

    Status/2024Q4/buildpacks.adoc: Add report
    
    Reviewed by:    status (Pau Amma <[email protected]>)
    Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/446
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+=== Containers and FreeBSD: Cloud Native Buildpacks
+
+Contact: Robert Gogolok <[email protected]>
+
+link:https://buildpacks.io/[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.
+
+A few weeks ago, I've started to look into FreeBSD support for buildpacks.
+My goal is to have working versions of the tools link:https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/concepts/lifecycle/[lifecycle] and link:https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/how-to/integrate-ci/pack/[pack] in the next few months.
+
+There were previous attempts to bring support for FreeBSD to buildpacks, for example to `lifecycle`:
+
+* link:https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle/pull/1087[Add support for FreeBSD #1087]
+* link:https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle/pull/1271[Add FreeBSD Support #1271]
+
+After looking into those changes, I've decided to first introduce some general cleanup steps to keep the required changes for FreeBSD small.
+
+This resulted in the following changes that were successfully integrated:
+
+* link:https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle/pull/1431[Remove obsolete // +build lines #1431]
+* link:https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle/pull/1432[Use unix build constraint #1432]
+* link:https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle/pull/1439[Support FreeBSD build phase #1439]
+
+With these steps, it is now possible to compile `lifecycle` under FreeBSD.
+
+The next steps are:
+
+- Provide missing FreeBSD functionality to `lifecycle`.
+- Further investigate FreeBSD as a build target in `lifecycle`.
+- Investigate and get the tool `pack` to compile and run under FreeBSD.
+- Provide `lifecycle` and/or `pack` via FreeBSD ports.
+- Investigate the idea of FreeBSD buildpacks for some popular languages, similar to link:https://paketo.io/[paketo buildpacks].