[FLINK-5635] Improve Docker tooling to make it easier to build images and launch Flink via Docker tools

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: flink-docker
• Assignee: Patrick Lucas
• Reporter: Jamie Grier
• Created: 25/Jan/17 06:17
• Updated: 19/May/17 15:33
• Resolved: 15/Mar/17 13:15

Description

This is a bit of a catch-all ticket for general improvements to the Flink on Docker experience.

Things to improve:

• Make it possible to build a Docker image from your own flink-dist directory as well as official releases.
• Make it possible to override the image name so a user can more easily publish these images to their Docker repository
• Provide scripts that show how to properly run on Docker Swarm or similar environments with overlay networking (Kubernetes) without using host networking.
• Log to stdout rather than to files.
• Work properly with docker-compose for local deployment as well as production deployments (Swarm/k8s)

Issue Links

• supercedes: FLINK-3155 Update Flink docker version to latest stable Flink version
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3205
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3494