This is a guide for developers about using buildpacks with Cloud Foundry. Buildpacks package the languages and libraries that support your apps.

The contents here are structured as a topic repository intended to be compiled into a larger document with Bookbinder.

See the docs-book-cloudfoundry repository for the complete list of open source documentation repositories, as well as information about the publishing process.

docs-buildpacks uses only the master branch to publish the buildpack documentation. The buildpack documentation is not tied to specific versions of Cloud Foundry. If you need to add version-specific content, add a template variable in the book repo for that version.

Use this section to specify spelling of special words for buildpacks:

• CF-compatible CNB The original term proposed was "shimmed buildpack". Do not capitalize compatible and do hyphenate CF-compatible. No need to add buildpack at the end because the "B" in CNB stands for "buildpack". It does not stand for "bundle" as I originally thought).

• Do not use variables to represent "product-names" in these files. The buildpacks are not proprietary but belong to Cloud Foundry.