YMNNALFT: Easy Docker Image Creation with the Spring Boot Maven Plugin and Buildpacks
Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (#YMNNALFT
)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.
Have you tried out Paketo? It's neat-o! It alleviates one of the biggest pains of cloudy software these days:Dockerfiles.
As an aside: the biggest pain point is, of course, YAML. YAML is why people leave IT! YAML: when you want the indentation-sensitive treachery of Python, with the nonexistent design-time validation of Python and none…