Even if it has been there for a long time now and I've even wrote a post about it, Google announced officially JIB few weeks back! Jib is a nice tool that helps automate the packaging of a Java program so that it can be run in the cloud-native environment.
DockerCon, has been held last week, 12-15 June 2018 in San Francisco! and guess what?! I was there along with more than 5000 containers fans, developers, IT experts, architects, sys-admins, Docker captains and my fellow community leaders! which makes DockerCon the best place to learn, collaborate and belong! What has
Till JDK 10, running java applications in linux containers was a bit tricky and requires additional setup to avoid surprises. These issues does not affect only older versions of Java (prior to 10), but also some tools that collect information from the execution environment like top, free and ps. That's
Whenever we talk about Docker maven plugins for java applications, we automatically think of fabric8io maven plugin, which is, honestly, a great plugin. But today, I'm going to talk about a new discovery: Jib, a Maven plugin for building Docker and OCI images for Java applications. Why Jib ?! The project
The release of Docker CE 17.05 (EE 17.06) introduced a new feature that helps create thin Docker images by making it possible to divide the image building process into multiple stages, or in short words: multi-stage builds. This feature allows the reuse of artifacts produced in one stage