This closes #13
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# For all Brooklyn, we use a debian distribution instead of alpine as there are some libgcc incompatibilities with GO
+# and PhantomJS
+FROM maven:3.5.2-jdk-8-slim
+
+# Install the non-headless JRE as some tests requires them
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y openjdk-8-jre
+
+# Install necessary binaries to build brooklyn
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+ git-core \
+ procps \
+ golang-go \
+ rpm \
+ dpkg
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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And then, with jdk 1.8+ and maven 3.1+ installed:
- mvn clean install -Dno-go-client -Dno-rpm
+ mvn clean install -Dno-go-client -Dno-rpm -Dno-deb
+
+However, you won't be able to build the RPM/DEB packages, as well as the CLI. That's why we would recommand to use the
+alternative: a docker container to build this project:
+
+```bash
+docker build -t brooklyn .
+docker run -i --rm --name brooklyn -v ${HOME}/.m2:/root/.m2 -v ${PWD}:/usr/build -w /usr/build brooklyn mvn clean install
+```
The results are in `brooklyn-dist/dist/target/`, including a tar and a zip.
Or to run straight after the build, do:
