Quarkus Images

This repository contains the container images used by Quarkus.

Quarkus images

The images are available on Quay.io

• ubi-quarkus-graalvmce-builder-image - provides the native-image executable. Used by the Maven and Gradle plugin from Quarkus to build linux64 executables
• ubi-quarkus-mandrel-builder-image - provides the native-image executable from the Mandrel distribution of GraalVM. Used by the Maven and Gradle plugin from Quarkus to build linux64 executables
• ubi-quarkus-graalvmce-s2i - S2I builder image for OpenShift building a native image from source code (using Gradle or Maven)
• ubi-quarkus-native-binary-s2i - S2I builder image for OpenShift taking a pre-built native executable as input
• quarkus-micro-image - a base image to run Quarkus native application using UBI Micro
• quarkus-distroless-image - a base image to run Quarkus native application following the distroless approach

To pull these images use:

• docker pull quay.io/quarkus/ubi-quarkus-graalvmce-builder-image:VERSION
• docker pull quay.io/quarkus/ubi-quarkus-mandrel-builder-image:VERSION
• docker pull quay.io/quarkus/ubi-quarkus-graalvmce-s2i:VERSION
• docker pull quay.io/quarkus/ubi-quarkus-native-binary-s2i:2.0
• docker pull quay.io/quarkus/quarkus-micro-image:2.0
• docker pull quay.io/quarkus/quarkus-distroless-image:2.0

with VERSION being the version. The version matches the GraalVM version used in the image, for example: 21.1.0-java11, 21.1.0-java16...

docker pull quay.io/quarkus/ubi-quarkus-native-image:22.1-java17 <-- GraalVM 22.1 with Java 17 (ARM64 / AMD64) 
docker pull quay.io/quarkus/ubi-quarkus-native-image:22.1.0-java17-amd64 <-- GraalVM 22.1 with Java 17 (AMD 64 only)

Navigate to the tag tab on quay.io to see the list of available tabs.

NOTE: You may wonder why we don't use latest. It's because latest has introduced more problems than benefits especially when reproducing issues. For this reason, we recommend using a stable version.

Build Prerequisites

• Apache Maven
• Docker with Build Kit / buildx - See https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/build_enhancements/.

Build

> mvn install

Dockerfiles are created in target/docker.

To skip the image creation (and just create the Dockerfiles), append -Djdock.dry-run=true to the command line: mvn install -Djdock.dry-run=true. The location of each Dockerfile is printed in the log.

LIMITATION: When using the dry-run option with a multi-arch image, only the individual Dockerfiles are dumped on the file system (so, you cannot check the multi-arch manifest).

Push images using:

> mvn install -Ppush

IMPORTANT: You cannot combine -Ppush with the -Djdock.dry-run=true option.

Images

native-image

This image provides GRAALVM and the native-image executable. It is used by the Quarkus Maven plugin and Quarkus Gradle plugin to generate linux 64 executable.

S2I - Source to Image

S2I (Source to Image) are builder images used by OpenShift to build image streams. Two S2I are available:

• GraalVM Native S2I - build your source code using Maven or Gradle and create a new container image from the produced native executable.
• Binary S2I - build a new container image from a provided native executable. This executable is generally built on your machine, and uploaded.

Both resulting containers are based on UBI images.

Continuous Integration and Automation

This repository uses GitHub Actions to build the images. On each PR, the images are built. Check the Actions tab in the GitHub project.

To push the images to Quay, you need to trigger a deployment. Once the images have been built from master successfully, issue the following cURL command:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
    -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.ant-man-preview+json"  \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    https://api.github.com/repos/quarkusio/quarkus-images/deployments \
    --data '{"ref": "main", "environment": "quay"}'

Note that you need a GITHUB_TOKEN (API token) to trigger the deployment.

Discontinued images

• The centos-quarkus-maven image is not maintained anymore.

Common maintenance tasks

Updating GraalVM

• Open the graalvm.yaml file from the quarkus-graalvm-builder-image module
• At the end of the file, add the new version, like:

  - graalvm-version: 22.3.1                                                   // graalvm version
  java-version: 11                                                          // java version
  variants:
    - sha: 55547725a8be3ceb0a1da29a84cd3e958ba398ce4470ac89a8ba1bdb6d9bddb8 // sha256 of the tar.gz file
      arch: amd64                                                           // architecture
    - sha: b46a3f9c82ac70990a62282b1fbe4474e784d9ba453839a428f88e94d21f8abc
      arch: arm64
  - graalvm-version: 22.3.1
  java-version: 17
  variants:
    - sha: 3acf4a59ae38cb0cd331a81777f6d24f8fdc6179ac25e5b198b6e08c444c9129
      arch: amd64
    - sha: a954fe8a4962be6ac8d0efff9ebf15108df59fad299213a31d2451bc78434818
      arch: arm64
  - graalvm-version: 22.3.1
  java-version: 19
  variants:
    - sha: 7cd99d805e7a8b7d4c4576802fb107fb862944e47ce5f2e4f37c0f469a70dd2f
      arch: amd64
    - sha: 95b0d0b1bf7e586695d8cf595df7a532b25314745397bb3d044cd00c409f6a0d
      arch: arm64

Be very careful with the indentation. Don't forget to update the hash (sha256) for each file. JDock enforces the signatures before building the image. You can download the files from https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds/releases/download/vm-$graalvm-version/graalvm-ce-java$java-version-linux-$architecture-$graalvm-version.tar.gz. In the url the architecture is either amd64 or aarch64. JDock creates a multi-arch manifest when multiple architectures are defined. So, in addition, to the single-arch image (appended with -arm64 or amd64), a manifest listing both images is created and pushed.

• If a tag was previously targeting the previous version, remove the tag attribute from the old version, and adds it to the new one:

  - graalvm-version: 22.3.1                                                   
  java-version: 11 
  tag: 22.3-java11    // the tag

When using a tag, JDock also pushes the image with the tag as label. It updates the targeted image automatically. So, it acts as a floating tag. Users are up to date and use the latest version (once they re-pull the image)

• Open the quarkus-native-s2i/graalvm.yaml file and update it using the same logic. For s2i, we only support java 11 and 17. We also, restrict the number of versions to the bare minimum. So any x.y.1, replaces the x.y.0.

Once you have build the new images (mvn clean install), it is recommended to check they have been produced using docker images. Note that multi-arch manifests are not created during the local build.

Updating the base image

The common base images are defined in the pom.xml file at the root of the project. To update them, edit the pom.xml file:

<!-- See https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/ubi8/ubi-minimal/5c359a62bed8bd75a2c3fba8 -->
<ubi-min.base>registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:8.8</ubi-min.base>
<!-- See https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/ubi8/ubi-micro/5ff3f50a831939b08d1b832a -->
<ubi-micro.base>registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8-micro:8.8</ubi-micro.base>

Pushing the image to quay

Once a pull request is merged into the main branch, and the main branch build succeeded, you can trigger a deployment. Produced images and multi-arch manifests will be deployed to quay.io.

To trigger the deployment, go to https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus-images/actions/workflows/push-images.yml and click on the Run workflow button. Then, click on the Run workflow green button (do not change the branch - main should be selected already).

Note that every sunday, a deployment happens automatically.