Graal: Alpine Linux based GraalVM Docker image

[fatih-erdem]

Hey, I want to use GraalVM but not the native image, just normal JIT mode.

I was searching for a Docker image for GraalVM and I saw the official one. https://hub.docker.com/r/oracle/graalvm-ce/tags

The problem is Docker image's size is about 450 MB. But for OpenJDK, I could find a Docker image based on Alpine Linux and size is around 50 MB.

Is there any plan to create the GraalVM Docker image based on Alpine Linux instead of Oracle Linux?

[fatih-erdem]

So, I can assume that there is no plan for this. 😄

[gilles-duboscq]

We'd first need to ensure we can run the JDK on alpine (JDK 8 and JDK 11).
We need to figure out the necessary patches for 8 and 11 to run on musl-based distributions (from portola / icedtea / zulu probably) and make separate builds.

[jwulf]

Spoiler alert: You can.

https://github.com/renanpalmeira/docker-graalvm-alpine

281MB

[aboullaite]

@jwulf Basically that's not running JDK on alpine/musl. he's adding glibc alpine package! porting JVM to musl is still a WIP

[petermz]

Liberica JDK runs on alpine/musl. They have 8 and 11 among others:
https://bell-sw.com/pages/downloads/?os=Linux&bitness=64-bit&architecture=x86-musl&package=jdk