Build and publish an app image from source with the pack CLI and a trusted Cloud Native Buildpacks builder.
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Documented steps
Install the pack CLI via Homebrew (`brew install buildpacks/tap/pack`), package managers, script install, or the buildpacksio/pack container image. Docs: https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/how-to/integrate-ci/pack/
List recommended builders: `pack builder suggest` — any builder it returns is trusted by default (https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/how-to/integrate-ci/pack/concepts/trusted_builders/).
A builder is 'an OCI image containing an ordered combination of buildpacks and a build-time base image, a lifecycle binary, and a reference to a runtime base image' (https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-app-developers/concepts/builder/).
Build to the local Docker daemon: `pack build myapp --path ./app --builder <builder>` (`--builder`/-B selects the builder image). Docs: https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/how-to/integrate-ci/pack/cli/pack_build/
To use an untrusted (non-suggested) builder, trust it per-invocation with `--trust-builder`, permanently with `pack config trusted-builders add <builder-name>`, or check with `pack config trusted-builders list`.
Publish directly to a registry instead of the daemon: `pack build registry.example.com/myapp:tag --builder <builder> --publish` — '--publish: Publish the application image directly to the container registry specified in <image-name>, instead of the daemon. The run image must also reside in the registry.'
Authenticate with `docker login` before publishing to an external registry (per https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-app-developers/how-to/build-inputs/use-cache-image/).
To point pack at an alternate daemon (Podman, remote Docker), use `--docker-host <addr>` or `--docker-host inherit` (uses the DOCKER_HOST env var).
Known gotchas
pack build is NOT truly daemonless in any mode: --publish only changes where the output image is written. Per the buildpacks.io FAQ: 'even when you publish the app image to a registry, pack is still using a daemon under the hood to create the build containers where buildpacks run' (https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-app-developers/how-to/build-inputs/specify-export-target/). For genuinely daemonless CI, run the lifecycle binaries directly or use kpack/Tekton.
Trusted vs untrusted builders change the execution model: trusted builders run all lifecycle phases as a single `creator` binary in one container; untrusted builders run 5 separate lifecycle binaries, using a published lifecycle image for the higher-privilege phases (analyze/restore/export) that need registry credentials buildpacks shouldn't see. A lifecycle image only exists for lifecycle 0.7.5+ and 0.6.1 — older builders must be explicitly trusted or the build fails.
Running on Podman requires a Docker-API-compatible endpoint: run `podman system service` and set DOCKER_HOST (and possibly --docker-host=inherit); requires podman v3.3.0+ and pack v0.22.0+ (https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-app-developers/how-to/special-cases/build-on-podman/).
Useful pack build flags: `--platform` (e.g. linux/amd64), `--network` for the detect/build containers, `--run-image` to override the run image (defaults to the builder's configured run image).
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