[IMPALA-8770] Support alternative Docker base images

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Labels: docker
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Epic Color: ghx-label-7
• Assignee: Joe McDonnell
• Reporter: Tim Armstrong
• Created: 18/Jul/19 14:59
• Updated: 11/Oct/22 20:34

Description

Currently we can only build against an Ubuntu16.04 base image. I have a use case where I'd like to build against a custom CentOS 7 base image.

I think this has a few parts;

• Allow substituting a custom base image in Dockerfile
• Somehow generalise distro-specific steps like apt-get.
• Generalise scripts like daemon_entrypoint.sh to handle different distros, e.g. CentOS

We should also consider dockerising the whole container build (at least optionally) so that it's possible to build images for an OS different from the host OS.