Cloud Native Buildpacks – Hands-on for Beginners

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Unlock the power of modern containerization with Cloud Native Buildpacks in this beginner-friendly course designed for hands-on learners. You’ll gain practical skills in building, managing, and customizing container images using Buildpacks without writing Dockerfiles. By the end of the course, you'll have a clear understanding of how Buildpacks simplify app deployment workflows across different languages and ecosystems. The course begins by introducing container images and explaining the core concepts and key features of Buildpacks. You’ll then move into practical setup, installing and using the Pack CLI tool across multiple operating systems. This foundational knowledge sets the stage for more advanced hands-on work with real-world apps. In the middle of the course, you’ll learn to build container images for Python, Node.js, and Java applications, including database integration. Later, you’ll dive deeper by creating your own Buildpacks and Builders, and configuring Procfiles. The course concludes with deploying and managing Buildpacks in Kubernetes environments using kpack, with complete demonstrations from setup to publishing OCI images. This course is ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and anyone looking to simplify cloud-native app deployment using containerization. A basic understanding of software development and familiarity with the command line is helpful but not required. This is a Beginner level course. By the end of the course, you will be able to use Buildpacks to create container images, customize build workflows, work with multiple languages and frameworks, and integrate with Kubernetes environments using kpack.