Jlink experimentations with Spring Boot an minimal image

Dockerfile

FROM openjdk:11-slim-buster AS builder
WORKDIR /workspace/app

COPY abc.jar demo.jar

RUN jar -xf demo.jar

RUN mkdir custom
RUN jlink --no-header-files --no-man-pages --compress=2 --strip-debug --add-modules java.base,java.logging,java.naming,java.desktop,java.management,java.security.jgss,java.instrument,java.sql --output custom/jre


#FROM debian:buster-slim

FROM alpine:3.11

ENV LANG='en_US.UTF-8' LANGUAGE='en_US:en' LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'

#magic packages goten from https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-docker/blob/master/11/jre/alpine/Dockerfile.openj9.releases.full
RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps curl binutils \
    && GLIBC_VER="2.29-r0" \
    && ALPINE_GLIBC_REPO="https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc/releases/download" \
    && GCC_LIBS_URL="https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/g/gcc-libs/gcc-libs-9.1.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz" \
    && GCC_LIBS_SHA256="91dba90f3c20d32fcf7f1dbe91523653018aa0b8d2230b00f822f6722804cf08" \
    && ZLIB_URL="https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/z/zlib/zlib-1%3A1.2.11-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz" \
    && ZLIB_SHA256=17aede0b9f8baa789c5aa3f358fbf8c68a5f1228c5e6cba1a5dd34102ef4d4e5 \
    && curl -LfsS https://alpine-pkgs.sgerrand.com/sgerrand.rsa.pub -o /etc/apk/keys/sgerrand.rsa.pub \
    && SGERRAND_RSA_SHA256="823b54589c93b02497f1ba4dc622eaef9c813e6b0f0ebbb2f771e32adf9f4ef2" \
    && echo "${SGERRAND_RSA_SHA256} */etc/apk/keys/sgerrand.rsa.pub" | sha256sum -c - \
    && curl -LfsS ${ALPINE_GLIBC_REPO}/${GLIBC_VER}/glibc-${GLIBC_VER}.apk > /tmp/glibc-${GLIBC_VER}.apk \
    && apk add --no-cache /tmp/glibc-${GLIBC_VER}.apk \
    && curl -LfsS ${ALPINE_GLIBC_REPO}/${GLIBC_VER}/glibc-bin-${GLIBC_VER}.apk > /tmp/glibc-bin-${GLIBC_VER}.apk \
    && apk add --no-cache /tmp/glibc-bin-${GLIBC_VER}.apk \
    && curl -Ls ${ALPINE_GLIBC_REPO}/${GLIBC_VER}/glibc-i18n-${GLIBC_VER}.apk > /tmp/glibc-i18n-${GLIBC_VER}.apk \
    && apk add --no-cache /tmp/glibc-i18n-${GLIBC_VER}.apk \
    && /usr/glibc-compat/bin/localedef --force --inputfile POSIX --charmap UTF-8 "$LANG" || true \
    && echo "export LANG=$LANG" > /etc/profile.d/locale.sh \
    && curl -LfsS ${GCC_LIBS_URL} -o /tmp/gcc-libs.tar.xz \
    && echo "${GCC_LIBS_SHA256} */tmp/gcc-libs.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c - \
    && mkdir /tmp/gcc \
    && tar -xf /tmp/gcc-libs.tar.xz -C /tmp/gcc \
    && mv /tmp/gcc/usr/lib/libgcc* /tmp/gcc/usr/lib/libstdc++* /usr/glibc-compat/lib \
    && strip /usr/glibc-compat/lib/libgcc_s.so.* /usr/glibc-compat/lib/libstdc++.so* \
    && curl -LfsS ${ZLIB_URL} -o /tmp/libz.tar.xz \
    && echo "${ZLIB_SHA256} */tmp/libz.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c - \
    && mkdir /tmp/libz \
    && tar -xf /tmp/libz.tar.xz -C /tmp/libz \
    && mv /tmp/libz/usr/lib/libz.so* /usr/glibc-compat/lib \
    && apk del --purge .build-deps glibc-i18n \
    && rm -rf /tmp/*.apk /tmp/gcc /tmp/gcc-libs.tar.xz /tmp/libz /tmp/libz.tar.xz /var/cache/apk/*



VOLUME /tmp

RUN mkdir /app

ARG DEPENDENCY=/workspace/app/

COPY --from=builder ${DEPENDENCY}/custom/jre /app/jre

COPY --from=builder ${DEPENDENCY}/BOOT-INF/lib /app/lib
COPY --from=builder ${DEPENDENCY}/META-INF /app/META-INF
COPY --from=builder ${DEPENDENCY}/BOOT-INF/classes /app

ENTRYPOINT ["/app/jre/bin/java","-cp","app:app/lib/*","com.example.demo.DemoApplication"]

Some cool references about building a Spring Boot docker image:

https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot-docker/

https://spring.io/guides/topicals/spring-boot-docker/

Jdeps scripting idea faces an issue:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8207162

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52195964/use-jdeps-for-module-which-has-multi-version-implementation-but-root-module-doe

jdeps --ignore-missing-deps --list-deps BOOT-INF/lib/

https://blog.codefx.org/tools/jdeps-tutorial-analyze-java-project-dependencies/