Lots and lots of folks are using docker these days. Existing Amazon AMI's would be cool too. Actually, I think docker files our projects or whatever you call them run in Amazon now as well.
A Sent from my iPhone > On May 13, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > > All, > > Yesterday I had a chance to talk to a really cool startup with awesome > developers who gave some great feedback on nifi. One of the things > they mentioned was how much they loved the UI. In fact they said if > they hadn't seen the reference to the UI they would have said > 'interesting' and moved on but not really followed up. > > The point they made is we should make it as easy as possible to get > from landing on the apache nifi webpage to having an up and running > instance of NiFi for them to get to start playing with the UI. > > I'd like to put this out there to get a sense of how people see this > being most effectively done. > > They mentioned Vagrant. We've also had some folks mention and > contribute references to docker images. Other ideas might be > providing a live/running site where people could just immediately > start gaining familiarity with nifi. > > Each of these have different pros/cons and it is unclear how to do > these in apache effective ways. > > Look forward to ideas you all may have or thoughts on what other > effective approaches projects have taken. > > Thanks > Joe
