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		forty on April 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A categorized list of all Java and JVM features si... What's the best way to run java apps in a container nowadays? The official openjdk images are based on "oracle Linux" and that doesn't sound right :) is there good small and well supported java image based on a popular distribution?

inyorgroove on April 1, 2021 | [–]

If that is a problem for you there is AdoptOpenJDK: https://hub.docker.com/_/adoptopenjdk

EDIT: Also openjdk has buster based images: https://hub.docker.com/layers/openjdk/library/openjdk/jdk-bu...

aphexairlines on April 1, 2021 | | [–]

Use jib (java image builder) with maven or gradle and it will build an image with distroless-java plus your app:

https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/blob/mast...

germanier on April 1, 2021 | [–]

Isn't Oracle Linux basically rebranded RHEL?

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