I wrote up my experience[0] on containerizing JVM based applications a bit ago using the cloud foundry java buildpack’s memory calculator. Fortunately the JVM now has a way to respect cgroup memory[1] making it a bit simpler.

[0]: https://medium.com/@matt_rasband/dockerizing-a-spring-boot-a... [1]: https://twitter.com/codepitbull/status/934384652806221825?s=...