Hey everyone,

We had a discussion at the regular Platform SIG meeting, and we thought we
would socialize this idea/subject with a larger group of people.

Many events or issues have recently collided that led many us to question
the Docker image variants that the Jenkins Project provides, especially the
base images that these are based on.
Currently, we provide 3 variants, all are based on openjdk's provided images
* Debian based
* Debian Slim based (https://hub.docker.com/_/debian/#debiansuite-slim)
* Alpine based

Given a few recent events around Debian or Ubuntu JDK [1], we started
thinking it might be good to switch to a different base image.
(The situation around the JDK support is BTW even worse for Alpine. Which
led to switching Evergreen already [2]).

So we have started thinking CentOS would seem like a good alternative
choice, given how central Java is to this platform in general.
In this regard, going to Fedora could probably be a possibility too.

We are really interested in hearing your opinions around this. Please voice
your concerns, if any.
If you think this sounds like a sensible move, please don't hesitate to let
us know either :).

Thanks!

-- Baptiste

[1] Summary of the recent JDK issues in Debian and Ubuntu
<https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-55547?focusedCommentId=358441&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-358441>
[2] The ticket for switching Evergreen to CentOS, already done
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-55547

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