[BEAM-8570] Use SDK version in default Java container tag

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.18.0
• Component/s: sdk-java-harness
• Labels: Done
• Assignee: Kyle Weaver
• Reporter: Kyle Weaver
• Created: 06/Nov/19 18:31
• Updated: 06/Oct/20 21:50
• Resolved: 07/Nov/19 23:58

Description

Currently, the Java SDK uses container `apachebeam/java_sdk:latest` by default [1]. This causes confusion when using locally built containers [2], especially since images are automatically pulled, meaning the release image is used instead of the developer's own image (BEAM-8545).

[1] https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/473377ef8f51949983508f70663e75ef0ee24a7f/runners/core-construction-java/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/core/construction/Environments.java#L84-L91

[2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/07131e314e229ec60100eaa2c0cf6dfc206bf2b0f78c3cee9ebb0bda@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E

Issue Links

• is cloned by: BEAM-8571 Use SDK version in default Go container tag
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10017