[FLINK-29865] Allow configuring the JDK in build-nightly-dist.yml

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.17.0
• Component/s: Build System / Azure Pipelines
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Nico Kruber
• Reporter: Nico Kruber
• Created: 03/Nov/22 10:50
• Updated: 04/Nov/22 09:12
• Resolved: 04/Nov/22 09:12

Description

build-nightly-dist.yml currently uses the default JDK from https://github.com/flink-ci/flink-ci-docker which happens to be Java 1.8 that we use for releases. We should

1. not rely on this default being set to 1.8 and
2. be able to configure this in the workflows themselves

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #21231