The Ultimate Dockerfile for Spring Boot Maven and Gradle applications

For Maven users, the ultimate Dockerfile is below.

FROM openjdk:8-jdk-alpine as build
WORKDIR /workspace/app

COPY mvnw .
COPY .mvn .mvn
COPY pom.xml .
RUN ./mvnw dependency:go-offline

COPY src src
RUN ./mvnw package -DskipTests
RUN mkdir -p target/dependency && (cd target/dependency; jar -xf ../*.jar)

FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine
VOLUME /tmp
ARG DEPENDENCY=/workspace/app/target/dependency
COPY --from=build ${DEPENDENCY}/BOOT-INF/lib /app/lib
COPY --from=build ${DEPENDENCY}/META-INF /app/META-INF
COPY --from=build ${DEPENDENCY}/BOOT-INF/classes /app
ENTRYPOINT ["java","-cp","app:app/lib/*","FULL_NAME_OF_SPRING_BOOT_MAIN_CLASS"]

Please make sure to update FULL_NAME_OF_SPRING_BOOT_MAIN_CLASS with Spring Boot application main class.

For Gradle users, the ultimate Dockerfile is below.

FROM openjdk:8-jdk-alpine as build
WORKDIR /workspace/app

COPY gradlew .
COPY gradle gradle
COPY build.gradle .
RUN ./gradlew dependencies

COPY src src
RUN ./gradlew build unpack -x test
RUN mkdir -p build/dependency && (cd build/dependency; jar -xf ../libs/*.jar)

FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine
VOLUME /tmp
ARG DEPENDENCY=/workspace/app/build/dependency
COPY --from=build ${DEPENDENCY}/BOOT-INF/lib /app/lib
COPY --from=build ${DEPENDENCY}/META-INF /app/META-INF
COPY --from=build ${DEPENDENCY}/BOOT-INF/classes /app
ENTRYPOINT ["java","-cp","app:app/lib/*","FULL_NAME_OF_SPRING_BOOT_MAIN_CLASS"]

Please make sure to update FULL_NAME_OF_SPRING_BOOT_MAIN_CLASS with Spring Boot application main class.

You can watch this video to learn more about optimizing docker images for Spring Boot applications.