Dear Community, Currently Apache Apex does not have a deliverable tarball which bundles the dependent jars and apex cli which user can just download and get started with.
Having this would be also be useful for current integration with Apache Bigtop as well. Currently in bigtop, the bigtop build downloads the src tar and builds the packages from it. Ideally the bigtop build should just download the deliverable tarball (containing packaged dependency for cli for ready to use). Also, one of the output of bigtop rpm/deb goes in docker image of apache apex. The Dockerfile for the same resides in my public repository. Considering above I have following proposals: 1. Create a new deliverable tarball in apex-core which will bundle all required and sufficient dependencies for user to quickly get started on an existing hadoop cluster. 2. Once we have the deliverable available in next apex-core release, we can update apache/bigtop to point to use that tarball. 3. There is also a docker image for apache/apex, the Dockerfile for which resides in https://github.com/chinmaykolhatkar/docker-pool. I would prefer if this is moved to apex-core repository so that the releases of docker and apex-core can be aligned better and also become part of Apache repo. Please share your opinion on this. Thanks, Chinmay.
