Thanks for all feedback. I've opened following tickets. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-21260 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-21261
More detailed discussion can happen in separate KIP threads :) On 2026-09-14 00:41 UTC Chia-Ping Tsai wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to raise a discussion about our system test dependencies. I'm not > sure this needs a KIP, happy to write one if people think so. We keep > hitting the same issues in each release: > > 1. We forgot to upload files to the S3 mirror, and not every RM has > access to it. > 2. We forgot to update both the Dockerfile and vagrant file. > 3. The Dockerfile has 44 curl lines for the same thing, so each release > adds two more. > > Therefore, I'd like to propose a base image on GitHub Container Registry > that contains only the released Kafka binaries. The benefits are: > > 1. It is built and pushed by a GitHub workflow that can be triggered > after each release, so no manual upload is needed. > 2. Only one file needs to be updated for each release. > 3. Both the Dockerfile and vagrant can pull everything from the base > image. > > Since the image is built once per release, we can fetch from ASF download > links directly and drop the S3 mirror. > > Also, is anyone still using vagrant? If not, we could drop it. > > Any thoughts? > > Chia-Ping :) >
