Gradle Docker Image

The official Docker image for Gradle. Maintained by the Gradle team as an Official Image. Thanks to @keeganwitt for his years of stewardship.

Gradle is a fast, dependable, and adaptable open-source build automation tool with an elegant and extensible declarative build language.

Supported Tags

• JDK 8 → jdk8, jdk8-jammy, jdk8-corretto, jdk8-ubi9
• JDK 11 → jdk11, jdk11-noble, jdk11-jammy, jdk11-alpine, jdk11-corretto, jdk11-ubi9
• JDK 17 → jdk17, jdk17-noble, jdk17-jammy, jdk17-alpine, jdk17-corretto, jdk17-ubi9, jdk17-noble-graal
• JDK 21 (LTS) → jdk21, jdk21-noble, latest, jdk21-jammy, jdk21-alpine, alpine, jdk21-corretto, corretto, jdk21-ubi9, ubi, jdk21-graal
• JDK 24 (Current) → jdk24, jdk24-noble, jdk24-alpine, jdk24-corretto, jdk24-graal

See all tags on Docker Hub.

Combo images

Combo images are images where two different JDK versions are made available to Gradle: the latest LTS JDK and the latest (LTS or non-LTS) JDK. Gradle runs on the LTS JDK, while toolchains can target the latest JDK.

• Combo Images → jdk-lts-and-current, jdk-lts-and-current-alpine, jdk-lts-and-current-corretto, jdk-lts-and-current-graal

To achieve this, the following appears in the /home/gradle/.gradle/gradle.properties file of the image:

org.gradle.java.installations.auto-detect=false
org.gradle.java.installations.auto-download=false
org.gradle.java.installations.fromEnv=JAVA_LTS_HOME,JAVA_CURRENT_HOME

Available environment variables:

• JAVA_LTS_HOME → path to the latest LTS JDK
• JAVA_CURRENT_HOME → path to the latest current JDK

These may point to the same path if the latest JDK is an LTS release.

Usage

Build a Gradle project

docker run --rm -u gradle \
  -v "$PWD":/home/gradle/project \
  -w /home/gradle/project \
  gradle:latest gradle <task>

Replace <task> with your desired Gradle task, e.g., build.

Reusing the Gradle User Home

To persist the Gradle User Home (including Gradle caches) between runs:

docker volume create --name gradle-cache
docker run --rm -u gradle \
  -v gradle-cache:/home/gradle/.gradle \
  -v "$PWD":/home/gradle/project \
  -w /home/gradle/project gradle:latest gradle build

Note that sharing between concurrently running containers doesn't work currently (see #851).

Currently, it is not possible to override the volume declaration of the parent. If you are using this image as a base image and want the Gradle cache to be written into the next layer, you will need to use a new user (or use the --gradle-user-home/-g argument) so that a new cache is created that isn't mounted to a volume.

License

Apache License 2.0.

© Gradle Inc. 2025