I think if you would go for that approach that instead of downloading maven 
manually like in your cluster prototype,
 using an actual official maven docker image would be even better suited:
https://hub.docker.com/_/maven/ <https://hub.docker.com/_/maven/>

Roy

> On 01 Oct 2015, at 23:45, Robert Munteanu <romb...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 23:18 +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Robert Munteanu <romb...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>> ...http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/launchpad/docker/ ..
>>> .
>> 
>> FWIW the Dockerfile from my docker-sling-cluster prototype from last
>> year also installs Maven and builds Sling locally, such a technique
>> allows for running the Sling trunk by just specifying which svn
>> version or tag you want. It also starts Sling at image build time, to
>> make startup of the final image faster.
>> 
>> It's at [1] and can be simplified today, by using a java:8 base image
>> as yours does. We might need different flavors of those images, I'm
>> not saying you should change yours.
> 
> Ah, interesting approach. What is not clear to me is how this would
> work for distribution. If we build the docker image with the
> Sling home already populated then we 'decide' the runmode, context
> path, etc in advance. It starts up faster, indeed, but it's less
> flexible.
> 
> It might be worth creating different flavour though ( oak-tar, oak
> -mongo, etc ).
> 
> Robert

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