November 2017
Beginner to intermediate
306 pages
7h 43m
English
You will notice that when you download buildpacks, there is sometimes an option for offline (cached) or online (uncached) versions that are available for downloading. A buildpack is online/uncached when it has remote internet access during the application staging. This enables a buildpack to have a smaller footprint and download the necessary dependencies for the application when needed. However, this presents a security issue when deploying into production environments. Ideally, there should not be any external remote access for a buildpack in those types of environments. Therefore, there are offline/cached buildpacks that contain pre-downloaded dependencies and internal code that prevents remote access. ...
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