Hi everyone, I would like to propose creating Docker images for Qpid components hosted in Docker Hub, updated upon component release and maintained by the project, and I would like to contribute to doing this.
Availability of Qpid images will make it easier to consume/deploy Qpid components and promote Qpid visibility. We can maintain docker scripts creating these images from the base OS images and using Qpid installation methods consistent with the OS distribution. A possible naming convention might be qpid/<component>/<OS>. I registered the 'qpid' user on DockerHub to use if this seems reasonable. For example, we could create qpid/dispatch/<OS> image, qpid/<broker>/<OS> image, qpid/<client(s)>/<OS> image, etc. Initially I would look to support Fedora/CentOS latest images and Qpid components as RPMs for them, then aim to expand OS coverage for debian/Ubuntu/etc in the future. The goal would be to update Qpid images within a few days upon component release (either directly or indirectly using yum/dnf from public repositories). We could ask the Docker team to grant Qpid "official" status when images have been stabilized. -- Regards, Irina.
