Azul Payara Micro is the lightweight middleware platform of choice for containerized Jakarta EE (Java EE) microservices deployments. Less than 100MB, Azul Payara Micro requires no installation, configuration, or code rewrites – so you can build and deploy a fully working app within minutes. Azul Payara Micro offers a long-term support software lifecycle, monthly releases and bug fixes.

Azul Payara Micro is designed for lightweight microservices deployment, whereas Azul Payara Server is a full enterprise Java runtime.

Azul Payara Micro provides enterprise-grade assistance from expert engineers, longer-term support for key features and technologies, additional security patches, performance enhancements and more. It also offers a regulatory compliant platform in line with key legislation, such as the EU’s Cyber-Resilience Act (CRA).

Conversely, Payara Micro Community is our community-driven, free version. It’s designed for developing, testing, and quickly trying out new ideas on the Jakarta EE Platform.

Yes, it’s optimized for containerized and cloud-native environments.

Payara Services delivers world-class, enterprise-grade support with guaranteed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Azul Payara Micro users, ensuring mission-critical applications remain secure, optimized and always available.

Azul Payara Micro customers can choose between two levels of support, based on their business and application needs: 10×5 or 24×7.

You can use Azul Payara Micro to deploy Spring Boot applications. To learn more, check out our blog posts on the topic.

Of course! Azul Payara Micro Docker images are available to customers in our Nexus repository. For user guides, videos, datasheets and other documents on Docker and Payara Platform Enterprise, check this page.