Creating buildpacks
Now that you've learned about buildpacks, we'll look into actually creating a buildpack. The alternative to this is to customize a buildpack, which means to fork and modify an existing buildpack. Creating a buildpack means to start from scratch with a framework or language that is currently not supported on Cloud Foundry. In general, it is highly common to customize an existing buildpack, since the most common frameworks and languages are already built for Cloud Foundry. So, why exactly would you need to customize a buildpack? Maybe you need a buildpack that has components/dependencies that are compatible with your organization's existing setup. For example, ApplicationDynamics (AppD) for application performance monitoring ...
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