Cloud Foundry for Developers

Creating the buildpack

On your local workspace directory, create a new directory called simple-http-buildpack. Within this directory, we'll need to create a manifest.yml file, a VERSION file, and a directory named bin containing three script files: detect, compile, and release. The manifest.yml file is used by buildpack-packager to pull the dependencies and file includes into a single buildpack ZIP file. The VERSION file is used by the buildpack-packager to append a versioning to your buildpack ZIP filename. Finally, the bin directory contains the three script files used during the staging process, as described previously. The key parts of these three files are as follows:

1. The detect script: Checks whether there is a file called index.http ...