Erlang/OTP image

[md5]

I'm opening this issue as a place to discuss the possible inclusion of an official erlang image in official-images.

It looks like a couple of approaches could be taken here. One would be to use the pre-packaged *.deb from Erlang Solutions as is done in the rabbitmq. Another would be to build Erlang from scratch as is done in a few of the Dockerfiles I found in the wild (https://github.com/correl/docker-erlang being the best one I found).

If the Erlang Solutions approach were taken, it could make sense to change the rabbitmq image to be based on erlang (or maybe an erlang:slim image if the rebar and relx build tools are too heavy). I believe the Erlang Solutions *.deb approach would still make it possible to offer an erlang base image for a number of different versions (e.g. R16 and R17).

cc/ @correl

[yosifkit]

We are definitely open to additions to the official images. This one is not on the close radar for the docker-library team. I am +1 to the debs from Erlang Solutions since that is one of the ways that erlang recommends to install (http://www.erlang.org/download.html).

[md5]

I started something over at https://github.com/synctree/docker-erlang

Given that I personally know next to nothing about Erlang, I'm not going to volunteer that repo for official image status, but I'm hoping to work on improving the image with a client of ours who uses Erlang. Since they know quite a bit about Erlang, I'm hoping that improvement will happen in the near future.

[yosifkit]

We have had an erlang image since #1075 (comment) 😄 🎉

[md5]

Thanks for the follow-up @yosifkit 🤘