+1 for having a base image for STs deps. It would definitely make things
easier. Same for dropping the Vagrant but let's see if there are more
opinions. But I would definitely be interested in the details of how
specifically you want to do it.

Maros

po 14. 9. 2026 o 2:42 Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]> napísal(a):

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to raise a discussion about our system test dependencies. I'm not
> sure this needs a KIP, happy to write one if people think so. We keep
> hitting the same issues in each release:
>
>    1. We forgot to upload files to the S3 mirror, and not every RM has
>    access to it.
>    2. We forgot to update both the Dockerfile and vagrant file.
>    3. The Dockerfile has 44 curl lines for the same thing, so each release
>    adds two more.
>
> Therefore, I'd like to propose a base image on GitHub Container Registry
> that contains only the released Kafka binaries. The benefits are:
>
>    1. It is built and pushed by a GitHub workflow that can be triggered
>    after each release, so no manual upload is needed.
>    2. Only one file needs to be updated for each release.
>    3. Both the Dockerfile and vagrant can pull everything from the base
>    image.
>
> Since the image is built once per release, we can fetch from ASF download
> links directly and drop the S3 mirror.
>
> Also, is anyone still using vagrant? If not, we could drop it.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Chia-Ping :)
>

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