Builders

Generic Builder

Buildpacks has a default generic builder that creates container images designed to run on Google Cloud services, including but not limited to: Google Kubernetes Engine, GKE Enterprise, Cloud Run, App Engine, and Cloud Functions.

The buildpacks generic builder:

  1. Automatically detects the language of your source code.
  2. Determines if that source code is an application (service) or function.
  3. Builds your source code into a deployable container image.

The generic builder itself is a container image that's publicly hosted on Container Registry.

Tag Location Operating system
latest gcr.io/buildpacks/builder:latest Ubuntu 22 (google-22)
google-22 gcr.io/buildpacks/builder:google-22 Ubuntu 22
v1 gcr.io/buildpacks/builder:v1 Ubuntu 18

Default builder

To always use the most recent version and operating system, you can specify the latest tag. The latest tag defaults to the google-22 version of the generic builder and is used when you run the gcloud run deploy command. If you need to pin to a version, see the instructions about how to Use a specific builder.

builder:google-22 supported languages

Language Supported Versions Applications Functions
Python 3.10.x ✓ ✓
3.11.x ✓ ✓
Node.js 12.x.x ✓ ✓
14.x.x ✓ ✓
16.x.x ✓ ✓
18.x.x ✓ ✓
20.x.x ✓ ✓
Java 8 ✓
11 ✓ ✓
17 ✓ ✓
18 ✓ ✓
Go 1.x ✓ ✓
Ruby 3.1.x ✓ ✓
3.2.x ✓ ✓
PHP 8.1.x ✓ ✓
8.2.x ✓ ✓
.NET Core 6.x ✓ ✓
7.x ✓ ✓

builder:v1 supported languages

Language Supported Versions Applications Functions
Python 3.7.x ✓ ✓
3.8.x ✓ ✓
3.9.x ✓ ✓
3.10.x ✓ ✓
3.11.x ✓ ✓
Node.js 8.x.x ✓ ✓
12.x.x ✓ ✓
14.x.x ✓ ✓
16.x.x ✓ ✓
Java 8.x ✓
11.x ✓ ✓
17.x ✓ ✓
Go 1.x ✓ ✓
Ruby 2.5.x ✓ ✓
2.6.x ✓ ✓
2.7.x ✓ ✓
3.0.x ✓ ✓
3.1.x ✓ ✓
PHP 7.4.x ✓ ✓
8.0.x ✓ ✓
8.1.x ✓ ✓
.NET Core 3.1.x ✓ ✓
6.x ✓ ✓
7.x ✓ ✓

App Engine builder

Buildpacks also publish the builders that are used to containerize applications for the App Engine second-generation runtimes.

The App Engine builders include additional buildpacks and App Engine-specific configurations. For example, they are optimized for execution speed and automatic updates. Builders are by runtime language and operating system:

Language Operating System Location Available Versions
Python Ubuntu 18 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-18/python/builder Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
Ubuntu 22 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-22/python/builder Python 3.10, 3.11
Node.js Ubuntu 18 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-18/nodejs/builder Node.js 10, 12, 14
Ubuntu 22 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-22/nodejs/builder Node.js 18, 20
Go Ubuntu 18 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-18/go/builder Go 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20
Ubuntu 22 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-22/go/builder Go 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20
Java Ubuntu 18 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-18/java/builder Java 8, 11
Ubuntu 22 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-22/java/builder Java 17
PHP Ubuntu 18 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-18/php/builder PHP 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1
Ubuntu 22 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-22/php/builder PHP 8.2
Ruby Ubuntu 18 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-18/ruby/builder Ruby 2.5, 2.6. 2.7, 3.0, 3.1
Ubuntu 22 gcr.io/gae-runtimes/buildpacks/google-gae-22/ruby/builder Ruby 3.2

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