GraalVM Native Image¶

GraalVM Native Image is a technology that allows you to compile Java code ahead-of-time into a standalone executable^[400-devops-01-concepts-of-software-development-graalvm.md].

This process results in an application that typically starts instantly and provides a smaller memory footprint compared to a standard Java Virtual Machine (JVM) runtime^[400-devops-01-concepts-of-software-development-graalvm.md].