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The current list of variant tags for images use terms that are not defined well.
Though some are terms of art that many Java developers and operators are familiar with, others are generic and ambiguous. The docker-library/docs README.md has a section for variants that only addresses alpine.
As single point of reference, I am a non-developer ops engineer that has been deploying Java applications for 25 years. This is what I understand from the tags:
jre- Just the runtimejdk- Everything needed for compile, and the runtimefull- No idea how this is different fromjdkheadless- Removed dependencies of GUI human interface, but is itjdkorjre?headful- First use I've ever seen. Assumed opposite of headless, but how different fromfullorjdk?generic- No ideanative- No ideaalpine- Well defined in docs README ✅alpine3- I assume a newer version of alpine, but I'm not an alpine guy so I'm not sure of the impact.al2- AmazonLinux2, but consider that may not be obvious to people outside the Amazon sphere.al2023- AmazonLinux2023, same issue asal2andalpine3. How does this matter in my choice?
I would like to see more explicit definitions included in this repo's README and the docker-library/docs README.
keeganwitt and giraffeb
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