Minimal Docker image with Java

Basic Docker image to run Java applications. This is based on Alpine Linux to keep the size minimal (about 25% of an ubuntu-based image).

Tags

• latest or 8 or serverjre-8: Oracle Java 8 (Server JRE)
• jdk-8: Oracle Java 8 (JDK)
• jre-8: Oracle Java 8 (JRE)

Please note that Java 7 is unsupported by Oracle, as of April 2015, so the following tags will not be updated past version 7u80, which has know security issues:

• 7 or serverjre-7: Oracle Java 7 (Server JRE)
• jdk-7: Oracle Java 7 (JDK)
• jre-7: Oracle Java 7 (JRE)

Additionally, tags are created for each oracle release (e.g. jdk-8u45).

Usage

Example:

docker run -it --rm jeanblanchard/java:8 java -version