Maven Jib — Shake and Bake Java Containerization without Docker

Timothy Stone - Tim is a father, blogger, OSS committer, source control nerd, Java certified web developer, analog wargamer, home brewer, and lifelong RPG gamer with 25+ years in Software Development, and Architecture for Consumer Credit and E&S Insurance at scale. Tim has formerly presented it the RJUG and RVASDUG and is a former Film/TV Segment Producer and Locations Manager.

The Jib Maven Plugin coupled with your CI/CD takes your containerization pipelines from "0 to 60" by removing the need for Docker and allowing you to plugin alternate build tools and declaratively define your container definition in the pom.xml. We'll compare Jib with Spring's build-image+Cloud Native Buildpacks and look at the use of Jib, Jib definition, and a sample pipeline with Trivy and SBOM tooling in GitLab.