Thanks a lot for your efforts! Maybe we can even put a small blog post on the Flink post once its available on docker hub.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Ismaël Mejía <ieme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am absolutely happy to see that this is finally happening! > We have a really neat image right now and it is great that it will be > soon so easy to use. > > One extra thing to mention is that Flink will have now two docker > images, one based on debian and the other one based on Alpine as most > official java-based projects do. > > In the future we expect to improve the documentation on how to use the > image with kubernetes and continue improving the actual documentation > with docker. If anyone wants to join to also document something or add > any improvement/feature you need, you are all welcome. > > Finally, I would also like to thank Maximilian Michels which > contributed and reviewed some of my early changes on the image. > > Regards, > Ismaël > > ps. We will 'announce' when the official images are available on > docker hub, so everyone can start to use them. > > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Patrick Lucas > <patr...@data-artisans.com> wrote: > > I've been informed that images don't make it through the list! > > > > You can see the aforementioned squirrel here > > <https://activerain-store.s3.amazonaws.com/image_store/ > uploads/8/7/6/3/9/ar12988558393678.JPG> > > . > > > > -- > > Patrick Lucas > > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Patrick Lucas < > patr...@data-artisans.com> > > wrote: > > > >> As part of an ongoing effort to improve the experience of using Flink on > >> Docker, some work has been done over the last two months to publish > >> official Flink Docker images to Docker Hub. The goal in the short term > is > >> to make running a simple Flink cluster (almost) as easy as running > docker > >> run flink. In the long term, we would like these images to be good > enough > >> to use in production directly, or as base images for use in an existing > >> Docker workflow. > >> > >> Flink 1.2.1 has some fixes over the last few releases that make running > it > >> on Docker nicer—and in some cases, possible. Notably, FLINK-2821 > >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2821> allowed Dockerized > >> Flink to run across multiple hosts, and FLINK-4326 > >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4326> added an option to > run > >> Flink in the foreground, which is greatly preferred when running in > Docker. > >> > >> We (Ismaël Mejía and myself, with some discussion with Stephan Ewen) > >> decided it made sense to bring the actual Dockerfiles outside of the > Apache > >> Flink git repo, primarily to conform with every other Apache project > that > >> has official images, but also because these scripts logically exist > >> decoupled from any particular Flink version. They are still > Apache-licensed > >> and maintained by the community. > >> > >> Please reply here or on the relevant JIRA/GitHub issue if you have > >> questions or feedback. > >> > >> Here's a squirrel in a container: > >> > >> > >> > >> References: > >> > >> - FLINK-3026: Publish the flink docker container to the docker > registry > >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3026> > >> - Repo for the Dockerfiles and the scripts that generate them > >> <https://github.com/docker-flink/docker-flink> > >> - GitHub PR to add the official images to Docker Hub > >> <https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/2895> > >> - Improvements to the quality of running Flink on Docker to be made > in > >> future Flink releases: > >> - FLINK-6300: PID1 of docker images does not behave correctly > >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6300> > >> - FLINK-6369: Better support for overlay networks > >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6369> > >> > >> Thanks to Ismaël Mejía, Jamie Grier, and Stephan Ewen for their > >> contributions. > >> > >> -- > >> Patrick Lucas > >> >
