Re: [DISCUSS] Base image for system test dependencies

[Luke Chen <sh...@gmail.com>]

+1 for both the new base image and dropping Vagrant.

Thank you,
Luke

On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 2:42 AM Maroš Orsák <ma...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> +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 <ch...@gmail.com> 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 :)
> >
>

Re: [DISCUSS] Base image for system test dependencies

[Federico Valeri <fe...@gmail.com>]

+1

Thanks
Fede

On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 5:20 AM Luke Chen <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for both the new base image and dropping Vagrant.
>
> Thank you,
> Luke
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 2:42 AM Maroš Orsák <ma...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > +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 <ch...@gmail.com> 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 :)
> > >
> >
>