Yep, I would like to have Amazon Corretto with my Java app running on AWS Fargate ;-)
From https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ — “Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK). Corretto comes with long-term support that will include performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon runs Corretto internally on thousands of production services and Corretto is certified as compatible with the Java SE standard. With Corretto, you can develop and run Java applications on popular operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and macOS.”
Amazon Corretto is now generally available — https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazon-corretto-8-generally-available/
Java is close to my heart, I love the language and wanted to quickly spin an “hello world” app leveraging Spring Boot on the very popular AWS Fargate — which allows you to run Docker containers without having to manage servers or clusters ..
Here are the simple steps:
Step 1
I cloned the simple Spring boot app code available at https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot-docker/ and added some minor changes to display a few Java system properties.
Clone the https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-spring-boot-docker.git. Before building the code, replace Dockerfile (in the gs-spring-boot-docker/complete directory) and Application.java (at gs-spring-boot-docker/complete/src/main/java/hello) with the code at https://github.com/cmanikandan/fargate-corretto
Build the code using Maven or Gradle, I used Gradle.
./gradlew build
I did some local testing on Docker using the Dockerfile at gs-spring-boot-docker/complete
docker build -t fargate-corretto .
docker run -p 8080:8080 fargate-corretto
Step 2
Push the images to Amazon ECR and test it on AWS Fargate.
I used the simple third party, open source — Fargate CLI available at http://somanymachines.com/fargate/ to quickly deploy the container as a Fargate task.
At gs-spring-boot-docker/complete directory :
fargate task run web
fargate task ps web (to get the IP address of the running task)
Open the app running on this IP address and bingo, we get our Spring Boot App running on AWS Fargate, using the OpenJDK from Amazon Corretto !!
Make sure you delete the Fargate task after the testing is done
fargate task delete web
Enjoy running your Java apps using Amazon Corretto — no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) — on the cloud or on your server/desktop/laptop running Linux or MacOS or Windows !!
