To chime in here, containers all the way. Started with buildpacks as that seemed like the ultimate zero-conf approach (like Heroku), but very slow, so switched to Containers. Works a charm.
How do you mean? I never touch the actual containers, I always just let Dokku take care of those, I just push the code with the Buildpack and Dokku handles the rest.
Oh wow, disregard that. I've never even touched buildpacks, didn't really know they were a feature. Everything I use is containers.
There is always a container in the end. But do you actually provide a Dockerfile along with your app code, or do you let buildpack create the container for you (ie. no Dockerfile in your source code)?
Yeah, it's all containers. Here's my template project: