Merge branch '2.4.x'

Closes gh-24564

Author: mbhave

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc

@@ -2829,7 +2829,7 @@ For machine clients, it produces a JSON response with details of the error, the
 For browser clients, there is a "`whitelabel`" error view that renders the same data in HTML format (to customize it, add a `View` that resolves to `error`).
 
 There are a number of `server.error` properties that can be set if you want to customize the default error handling behavior.
-See the <<appendix-application-properties.adoc#common-application-properties-server, "`Server Properties`">> section of the Appendix.  
+See the <<appendix-application-properties.adoc#common-application-properties-server, "`Server Properties`">> section of the Appendix.
 
 To replace the default behavior completely, you can implement `ErrorController` and register a bean definition of that type or add a bean of type `ErrorAttributes` to use the existing mechanism but replace the contents.
 
@@ -8825,24 +8825,17 @@ If you need the `Mockk` equivalent of the Mockito specific <<boot-features-testi
 
 
 [[boot-features-container-images]]
-== Building Container Images
-Spring Boot applications can be containerized either by <<boot-features-container-images-docker,packaging them into Docker images>>, or by <<boot-features-container-images-buildpacks,using Buildpacks to create Docker compatible container images that you can run anywhere>>.
-
-
-
-[[boot-features-container-images-docker]]
-=== Building Docker images
-A typical Spring Boot fat jar can be converted into a Docker image by adding just a few lines to a Dockerfile that can be used to build the image.
+== Container Images
+It is easily possible to package a Spring Boot fat jar as a docker image.
 However, there are various downsides to copying and running the fat jar as is in the docker image.
 There’s always a certain amount of overhead when running a fat jar without unpacking it, and in a containerized environment this can be noticeable.
 The other issue is that putting your application's code and all its dependencies in one layer in the Docker image is sub-optimal.
 Since you probably recompile your code more often than you upgrade the version of Spring Boot you use, it’s often better to separate things a bit more.
 If you put jar files in the layer before your application classes, Docker often only needs to change the very bottom layer and can pick others up from its cache.
 
-
-
-==== Layering Docker Images
-To make it easier to create optimized Docker images that can be built with a dockerfile, Spring Boot supports adding a layer index file to the jar.
+[[boot-layering-docker-images]]
+=== Layering Docker Images
+To make it easier to create optimized Docker images, Spring Boot supports adding a layer index file to the jar.
 It provides a list of layers and the parts of the jar that should be contained within them.
 The list of layers in the index is ordered based on the order in which the layers should be added to the Docker/OCI image.
 Out-of-the-box, the following layers are supported:
@@ -8876,9 +8869,12 @@ Application code is more likely to change between builds so it is isolated in a
 For Maven, refer to the {spring-boot-maven-plugin-docs}#repackage-layers[packaging layered jars section] for more details on adding a layer index to the jar.
 For Gradle, refer to the {spring-boot-gradle-plugin-docs}#packaging-layered-jars[packaging layered jars section] of the Gradle plugin documentation.
 
+=== Building Container Images
+Spring Boot applications can be containerized <<boot-features-container-images-docker,using Dockerfiles>>, or by <<boot-features-container-images-buildpacks,using Cloud Native Buildpacks to create docker compatible container images that you can run anywhere>>.
 
-
-==== Writing the Dockerfile
+[[boot-features-container-images-docker]]
+==== Dockerfiles
+While it is possible to convert a Spring Boot fat jar into a docker image with just a few lines in the Dockerfile, we will use the <<boot-layering-docker-images,layering feature>> to create an optimized docker image.
 When you create a jar containing the layers index file, the `spring-boot-jarmode-layertools` jar will be added as a dependency to your jar.
 With this jar on the classpath, you can launch your application in a special mode which allows the bootstrap code to run something entirely different from your application, for example, something that extracts the layers.
 
@@ -8941,7 +8937,7 @@ You can use some combination of `unzip` and `mv` to move things to the right lay
 
 
 [[boot-features-container-images-buildpacks]]
-=== Buildpacks
+==== Cloud Native Buildpacks
 Dockerfiles are just one way to build docker images.
 Another way to build docker images is directly from your Maven or Gradle plugin, using buildpacks.
 If you’ve ever used an application platform such as Cloud Foundry or Heroku then you’ve probably used a buildpack.
@@ -8954,6 +8950,8 @@ This means you can just type a single command and quickly get a sensible image i
 
 Refer to the individual plugin documentation on how to use buildpacks with {spring-boot-maven-plugin-docs}#build-image[Maven] and {spring-boot-gradle-plugin-docs}#build-image[Gradle].
 
+NOTE: The https://github.com/paketo-buildpacks/spring-boot[Paketo Spring Boot buildpack] has also been updated to support the `layers.idx` file so any customization that is applied to it will be reflected in the image created by the buildpack.
+
 NOTE: In order to achieve reproducible builds and container image caching, Buildpacks can manipulate the application resources metadata (such as the file "last modified" information).
 You should ensure that your application does not rely on that metadata at runtime.
 Spring Boot can use that information when serving static resources, but this can be disabled with configprop:spring.web.resources.cache.use-last-modified[]