Buildpacks

In order to deploy and successfully run an application on Cloud Foundry, a buildpack is required to ensure that the necessary runtime support for your application is set up, along with your application during the push. Essentially, a buildpack consists of a set of tools, potential runtime components, and scripts that are programmed to retrieve dependencies required by the application for a given language; move the compiled output to some run location, compile the code, and/or configure the application for running in the container. 

From a developer's perspective, a buildpack brings out the polyglot benefits of Cloud Foundry. It enables the development of applications using different supporting types of languages with consistent versioned dependencies. From a platform team's perspective, all dependencies are consistent throughout all environments, such as development and production. There is no need to snowflake dependency and framework setup for different development teams. 

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