Hey Robin, +1 That's a great idea. It's often a bit painful for new users to get all the dependencies in the right place.
+1 for building upon the official Flink Docker images: https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/flink -Max On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 12:27 PM Péter Váry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Robin, > > I would love to see the Flink quickstart image in the Iceberg repo. > > Ajantha was working on the Spark side: > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/13519 > The conclusion was: >> >> we should both remove the vendor reference and bring this back up to date. >> My preference would be to rely on the Spark image >> <https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/spark> provided by the Apache Spark >> project, similar to what we do for the Hive >> <https://iceberg.apache.org/hive-quickstart/> quickstart. We should be able >> to load all the Iceberg-specific JARs through the spark.jars.packages >> configuration <https://spark.apache.org/docs/3.5.1/configuration.html>. > > > Ajantha also added the link to the old dev list thread: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/4kknk8mvnffbmhdt63z8t4ps0mt1jbf4 > > Thanks for working on this, > Peter > > Robin Moffatt via dev <[email protected]> ezt írta (időpont: 2026. jan. > 22., Cs, 19:23): >> >> Hi, >> >> Following discussion on the Flink quickstart PR [1], what do people think >> about adding an official quickstart Docker image for Flink to the project? >> At the moment the Spark quickstart uses tabulario/spark-iceberg so perhaps >> that could be brought into the project too. >> >> thanks, Robin. >> >> 1: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/15062
