Most developers never see the 11 pack releases we shipped in the last 14 months as pack CLI maintainers. That’s actually a good sign—it means the infrastructure just works. When a critical vulnerability emerges requiring an immediate upgrade, the fix is shipped within days.

Here’s what most developers don’t see: that same security patch now protects every buildpack user across Heroku, Google Cloud, Openshift, VMware Tanzu, and thousands of internal platforms.

The daily work of platform maintenance

As maintainers of pack CLI, the entry point to Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs), our work lives in that invisible layer between developers and infrastructure.…