Why Tanzu Build Service?
There are various business, technical, and security challenges in building container images for applications. This becomes even more complex when we do it at scale in a large enterprise. Let’s understand what those challenges are and how TBS addresses them.
Increasing developer productivity
As discussed, one of the most popular approaches to building container images today is using Dockerfiles. And, in most cases, the application teams are responsible for building and maintaining such Dockerfiles for their applications. These Dockerfiles contain details such as the base container operating system and its version, application bundles such as JAR files for a Java application, environment variables, and useful libraries and their versions.
JAR files
A Java ARchive (JAR) file is a package of an application containing compiled source code files, configuration files, and external libraries required by the application. A JAR file can either be a...