I was not aware of BigTop, I do not think we should duplicate their work here. Maybe they will publish docker images as well in the future.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Mike Percy <mpe...@apache.org> wrote: > Currently rpms are handled by downstream projects like Apache BigTop as > well as commercial distributions. So in my view it's a duplication of > efforts there, particularly since BigTop and distributions based on it also > harmonize dependencies to a certain extent and we mark many of our > dependencies as "provided". > > So it's possible but not sure it's worth the effort since Flume depends on > so many other projects like Hadoop, HBase, etc > > Mike > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Lior Zeno <liorz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Currently, we distribute Flume via a tarball. I think we should improve > and > > also publish deb and rpm packages that allow running Flume as a service. > > > > More over, container technology, such as Docker, has become increasingly > > popular in last few years. Publishing an official Docker image will allow > > easier deployment of Flume in the cloud. > > > > How do you guys feel about this? > > > > Thanks > > >
