Conveniently timed post! I was just looking at buildpacks.io over the weekend. I was not aware there was a shim to conver Heroku buildpacks to the v3 spec. Neat.

Is there any advantage to buildpacks if you're comfortable making custom Dockerfiles? Seems like Docker would give you a lot more flexibility and clarity over what's deployed.

Also portability. It's amazing how universal running Docker containers currently is.

JSYK: the end result of the Buildpacks project is a Docker image. It's just that if someone wants to package up NGINX inside of a container alongside their app, they can just add the buildpack and an nginx.conf rather than going through the complexity of installing and configuring it themselves.