Chapter 5. Deploying Red Hat build of Quarkus applications compiled to native executables

You can deploy your native Quarkus applications to OpenShift Container Platform compiled to native executables by using the Docker build strategy.

You must create a native executable for your application that targets a supported operating system and match the architecture. This means, if you are building on Windows, you create a native Linux executable by using a container runtime, for example, Docker or Podman.

Your Quarkus project includes pregenerated Dockerfiles with instructions. If you want to use a custom Dockerfile, add the file to the src/main/docker directory or any location inside the module. Additionally, if you want to have multiple Docker files and switch between them, set the path to your preferred Dockerfile by using the quarkus.openshift.native-dockerfile property.