You don't need to run jlink yourself to avoid shipping the entire JDK. Here's a java19 runtime docker image at 62MB: https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-temurin/t

You don't need to run jlink yourself to avoid shipping the entire JDK. Here's a java19 runtime docker image at 62MB: https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-temurin/tags?page=1&name=19-jre-alpine https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-temurin/tags?page=1&name=19... Not customizing the runtime per build or per app also potentially helps reuse of docker image layers across your container registries and clusters.