Heroku came up with the idea of buildpacks [01] the idea has later been picked up by Cloud Foundry [02]. Using buildpacks (as an alternative to dockerfiles/imag

Heroku came up with the idea of buildpacks [01] the idea has later been picked up by Cloud Foundry [02]. Using buildpacks (as an alternative to dockerfiles/images) mitigates this problem. A lot of best practices are build into the buildpacks. Of course this does not work for everything. But for most cases this is just good enough. [01] https://buildpacks.io/ https://buildpacks.io/ [02] https://www.cloudfoundry.org/ https://www.cloudfoundry.org/