They might be interested in discussing Docker images on dev@bigtop.a.o ... Mike
On Friday, October 14, 2016, Lior Zeno <liorz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <javascript:;>> 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 > <javascript:;>> 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 > > > > > >