Hi JB, I took a quick look at the draft PR.
I think offering this option to users is a good idea. I suppose the main feedback will come when people start putting it into practice. It might be worth mentioning this README on the custom server doc page [1] too. [1] https://polaris.apache.org/releases/1.4.1/downstream-build/ Cheers, Dmitri. On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 12:49 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > As discussed previously on the mailing list, and also during community > meetings and sprints, as Polaris server is an "opinionate distribution", > users might want to create their own Polaris server distribution, > "changing" the standard distribution: > - including auth plugins/extensions (OPA, Ranger, ...) > - including federation plugins/extensions (HMS, ...) > - including JDBC database backend/driver plugins/extensions (MySQL, ...) > - including NoSQL backend/driver plugins/extension (MongoDB, ...) > > Today, to do that, the user basically needs to fork Polaris, tweak gradle > to create custom distribution assembly. > > As it's fairly common expectation from Polaris, I think we should provide > tool to facilitate the creation of custom distributions for our users. > > I created a draft PR to illustrate that: > https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/4413 > > Basically, a user can do: > > ./create-polaris-assembly.sh --auth ranger --federation hadoop > > It will create a custom polaris server distribution, including Ranger auth > plugin, and Hadoop catalog federation. > > You can take a look on the README.md ( > > https://github.com/jbonofre/polaris/blob/ea7137fadd6622daf39e8c5b5307f7898ba1f24b/runtime/custom-assembly/README.md > ) > for more details. > > Thoughts? > > Regards > JB >
