Blog posts tagged
"chiselled"

5 posts

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy

Article Cloud and server

This blog is contributed by Pushkar Kulkarni, a Software Engineer at Canonical. Building on the rise in popularity of Spring Boot and the 12 factor paradigm, our Java offering also includes a way to package Spring workloads in production grade, minimal, well organized containers with a single command. This way, any...

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Spring support available on Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

This blog is contributed by Vladimir Petko, a Software Engineer at Canonical. The release of Plucky Puffin earlier this year introduced the availability of the devpack for Spring, a new snap that streamlines the setup of developer environments for Spring on Ubuntu. In this blog, we’ll explain what devpacks are and...

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Canonical
1 July 2025

Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21

Article Cloud and server

Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly optimized for size and security, containing only the dependencies that are strictly necessary. They are available for both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures and...

Canonical
1 July 2025

Canonical
1 July 2025

Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK

Article Canonical announcements

Java has long been the most popular language for software development in large enterprises, with 90% of Fortune 500 companies using it for backend development, particularly in industries like finance, healthcare, and government.  Java developers, more than most, are tasked with balancing the implementation of new...

Canonical
1 July 2025

Canonical
21 November 2023

Canonical announces the general availability of chiselled Ubuntu containers

Article Canonical announcements

Production-ready, secure-by-design, ultra-small containers with chiselled Ubuntu Canonical announced today the general availability of chiselled Ubuntu containers which come with Canonical’s security maintenance and support commitment. Chiselled Ubuntu containers are ultra-small OCI images that deliver only the...

Canonical
21 November 2023