This is a micro docker container 
This images are build on nimmis/alpine-micro which are a modified version of Alpine with a working init process, and a working cron, logrotate and syslog. Services are started with runit daemon, for more information about that see nimmis/alpine-mico
docker run -ti nimmis/alpine-java:openjdk-8-jdk /bin/bash
This will start the container with a normal shell, no cron or other systems are started
docker run -d nimmis/alpine-java:openjdk-8-jdk
This will start the container with the init process running, access the container with
docker exec -ti <container ID> /bin/bash
The different version is determined with the TAG
If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact us by submitting a ticket through a GitHub issue
- Look to see if someone already filled the bug, if not add a new one.
- Add a good title and description with the following information.
- if possible an copy of the output from cat /etc/BUILDS/* from inside the container
- any logs relevant for the problem
- how the container was started (flags, environment variables, mounted volumes etc)
- any other information that can be helpful
You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as we can.
This image contains the following versions of java, the container names are nimmis/alpine-java: where tag is
| Tag | OpenJDK version | size |
|---|---|---|
| latest | Oracle Java version 8 JRE | |
| openjdk-7-jdk | OpenJDK Java version 7 JDK |  |
| openjdk-7-jre | OpenJDK Java version 7 JRE |  |
| openjdk-8-jdk | OpenJDK Java version 8 JDK |  |
| openjdk-8-jre | OpenJDK Java version 8 JRE |  |
| oracle-8-jdk | Oracle Java version 8 JDK |  |
| oracle-8-jre | Oracle Java version 8 JRE |  |
| Example to run a container with OpenJDK version 7 JDK |
docker run -d nimmis/alpine-java:openjdk-7-jdk