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🏗 Build container images for your Java applications.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 4 stories, 17 comments · first 2018-07-10 · latest 2025-11-24

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  1. We use jib at work ( https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib ) which also skips the Dockerfile and builds an image for a Java project directly. This certainly looks like a much nicer experience than docker build, especially given that…
    comment by isaacvando · 2025-11-24 · in We deleted our Dockerfiles: a better, faster way to build container images
  2. Yeah this would be great if it had a feature like jib ( https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib ) where it just natively packages into a container. It seems like it should have all the information it needs to work, as long as you can…
    comment by sundbry · 2024-09-04 · in Production-ready Docker Containers with uv
  3. Hard to beat jib ( https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/tree/master/jib-... ) for minimal Java OCI containers.
    comment by markelliot · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
  4. …Go services should be ko: https://ko.build/ , and similar solutions like Jib in the Java ecosystem: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib . No need to require everyone to install something heavy like Nix, no need for privileged…
    comment by solatic · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
  5. …are looking for. Plugs into Maven, and the same source/content always generates the same image - https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib
    comment by mchmarny · 2022-03-08 · in Three Pillars of Reproducible Builds
  6. For Java, JIB on distroless works pretty well. It's small, fast and secure. - https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib - https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
    comment by gui77aume · 2022-01-07 · in Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters
  7. We use Google Jib with Gradle ( https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib ) and love it. It does some slight optimisations (just use the classes rather than jars) and removes some decision making about where files are laid out. It also…
    comment by tikkabhuna · 2021-11-30 · in Will Nix Overtake Docker?
  8. …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...
    comment by aphexairlines · 2021-04-01 · in A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16
  9. https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib#what-is-jib > What is Jib? > Jib builds optimized Docker and OCI images for your Java applications Funny. Here I thought you could just build and deploy a jar if you were committed to writing…
    comment by e12e · 2021-02-08 · in Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles
  10. …in. It would be nice if CI systems would let me explicitly tag builds as (non)reproducible. 1. https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib 2. https://phauer.com/2019/no-fat-jar-in-docker-image/
    comment by donmcronald · 2021-01-21 · in VSCode, Dev Containers and Docker
  11. For Java you can use jib from google https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib
    comment by victor106 · 2020-11-02 · in Building Containers Without Docker
  12. …aren't going anywhere, and I think flatpack strikes the right balance for users and developers. [1] https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib [2] https://github.com/google/nixery
    comment by ece · 2020-10-05 · in Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
  13. …also considering Quarkus for some of our services that aren't supposed to run for a long time. [1] https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib
    comment by johnnycerberus · 2020-09-22 · in A Picture of Java in 2020
  14. …to build images. e.g. nix: http://lethalman.blogspot.com/2016/04/cheap-docker-images-wi... or jib: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib These may not fit every use case, but they can minimize the size of the image by making really…
    comment by fiddlerwoaroof · 2020-02-20 · in Reducing Docker Image Size
  15. …components in the future. [0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M2PJ_h6GzviUNHMPt7x-5POU... [1] https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib
    comment by jacques_chester · 2018-10-03 · in CNCF to Host Cloud Native Buildpacks in the Sandbox
  16. …The format is the same. There are also tools like jib which can build containers without docker: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib
    comment by cdoxsey · 2018-08-21 · in Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
  17. …my "initial" sbt implementation: https://github.com/schmitch/sbt-jib (Should be easier to do after: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib/issues/337 ) It also still misses some important things like that not all resources will be put…
    comment by merb · 2018-07-10 · in Introducing Jib — Build Java Docker images better