Docker: Stop using it the wrong way. Part 3.
If this is a coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea then please bring me some coffee (c) Abraham Lincoln
That’s right! It’s time to look at how to build a Docker container for a Java application.
As you know, programs written in Java are compiled to byte-code which is translated by Java Virtual Machine (JVM). To make it possible to run some small application written in Java you have to have the whole Java runtime environment. Let’s create a Docker container with Java 8 and look at how we can actually reduce its size.
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