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The Maven and Gradle plugins for Rockcraft let you build Ubuntu container images for your Java application through a maven goal or a gradle task. They let you build and test apps in the very same container they would be eventually deployed in.
Past articles of this series have demonstrated how easy it is to produce application container images for Maven and Gradle applications. The containers are built on a chiseled Ubuntu base, making them suitable for deployment. The one last bit that I’...
In this series, I have shown how Rockcraft’s Maven and Gradle plugins make the task of producing development-time container images of your application, effortless and iteration-friendly. The need to run a Java application within a bare-minimal runtim...
The previous post showed how a self-contained runtime image for a non-modular application could be packaged into a container using the Badass Runtime plugin and the Rockcraft Gradle plugin. Speaking of modules as defined by the Java Platform Module S...
At the end of the previous post, I promised to talk about container image size reduction by packaging only those Java modules that the application actually depends on. For this we would need a modular Java application that uses the Java Platform Modu...
Introduction In the previous post of this series, I introduced the Rockcraft Maven plugin. I demonstrated how application container images could be easily created as a part of a Java developer’s typical Maven workflow. This post introduces the Gradle...
Introduction You are developing a Maven-based Spring Boot application. This Java application will be eventually production-deployed, as a micro-service, in a container. Well, let us assume an Ubuntu-based chiseled container! During your development i...
