Hi Flink devs, As part of a Stateful Functions release, we would like to publish Stateful Functions Docker images to Dockerhub as an official image.
Some background context on Stateful Function images, for those who are not familiar with the project yet: - Stateful Function images are built on top of the Flink official images, with additional StateFun dependencies being added. You can take a look at the scripts we currently use to build the images locally for development purposes [1]. - They are quite important for user experience, since building a Docker image is the recommended go-to deployment mode for StateFun user applications [2]. A prerequisite for all of this is to first decide where we host the Stateful Functions Dockerfiles, before we can proceed with the process of requesting a new official image repository at Dockerhub. We’re proposing to create a new dedicated repo for this purpose, with the name `apache/flink-statefun-docker`. While we did initially consider integrating the StateFun Dockerfiles to be hosted together with the Flink ones in the existing `apache/flink-docker` repo, we had the following concerns: - In general, it is a convention that each official Dockerhub image is backed by a dedicated source repo hosting the Dockerfiles. - The `apache/flink-docker` repo already has quite a few dedicated tooling and CI smoke tests specific for the Flink images. - Flink and StateFun have separate versioning schemes and independent release cycles. A new Flink release does not necessarily require a “lock-step” to release new StateFun images as well. - Considering the above all-together, and the fact that creating a new repo is rather low-effort, having a separate repo would probably make more sense here. What do you think? Cheers, Gordon [1] https://github.com/apache/flink-statefun/blob/master/tools/docker/build-stateful-functions.sh [2] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-statefun-docs-master/deployment-and-operations/packaging.html
