jvm in kubernetes/docker running out of memory faster than standalone
Did you set your container memory resouce requests and limits? Jdk 8u131 doesn't know that it is running inside a container. It still sees the host VMs resources. That could be why your JVM inside the container is killed immediately.
There's a good article from redhat back in 2017.https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/03/14/java-inside-docker/