Docker, Podman/Buildah, Kaniko, Buildpacks, Maven and Gradle plugins, and of course, manually. What are the pros and cons of these tools and how do they actually work? Leave this session with a better understanding of container image building and the expertise to confidently choose a build method for your environment. Building cloud native applications generally implies the development of container images for portability, scalability, and ease of use in Kubernetes and other orchestration environments. Understanding the mechanics of your build is essential to protecting against inefficiency and unexpected behavior from your application running in production. Build tools are meant to ease your workload, and learning how to use them appropriately in your CI/CD process is arguably even more important than your tool choice. This session will walk through the different methods and tools available for building your container images and how to integrate them successfully into your software development pipeline.