Hi, I know we're building Ceph in Linux distributions and many of you use vstart.sh as I do. Steps to install dependencies are easy so we don't have to worry about prerequisites in a dev machine. I'm thinking if it's useful to build Ceph in Docker. There are reasons to do this, for example 1) not be able/willing to install quite a few dependency software/library on a shared Linux, 2) to have a standard build image for isolated and automatic testing, and 3) to build on Mac/Windows. I know for this we can create Linux virtual machines on Mac/ Windows, but I think container is lightweight and better. So I attach a small script that creates a Docker image to build the Ceph from source, and then starts a test cluster with vstart.sh in a container. Do you think it's something useful and/or worth to have in source tree? When I was building Hadoop, I found its start-build-env.sh helpful, which is basically the same idea I borrowed here. Thanks, Mingliang
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