Show HN: Brewlet is Java on Kubernetes with node-managed JDKs

Category: infrastructure

Tags: java, kubernetes, containerd, oci-artifacts, jdk-management

Score: 7.8/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Brewlet is a Microsoft-led project that separates Java applications from the JDK by packaging apps as OCI artifacts and using node-resident JDKs managed via Kubernetes. It provides a containerd shim, node provisioner, admission webhook, and Maven plugin to enable efficient, secure, and policy-controlled Java workloads at scale.

Target audience: platform engineers, devops, backend java developers

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/brewlet · Go · MIT · 52 stars

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