diff --git a/build-tools/docker/Dockerfile b/build-tools/docker/Dockerfile
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+
+# 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.
+
+# Dockerfile for installing the necessary dependencies for building Hadoop.
+# See BUILDING.txt.
+
+FROM ubuntu:xenial
+
+WORKDIR /root
+
+SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
+
+#####
+# Disable suggests/recommends
+#####
+RUN echo APT::Install-Recommends "0"\; > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10disableextras
+RUN echo APT::Install-Suggests "0"\; >>  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10disableextras
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
+ENV DEBCONF_TERSE true
+
+######
+# Install common dependencies from packages. Versions here are either
+# sufficient or irrelevant.
+#
+# WARNING: DO NOT PUT JAVA APPS HERE! Otherwise they will install default
+# Ubuntu Java.  See Java section below!
+######
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008
+RUN apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        apt-utils \
+        build-essential \
+        bzip2 \
+        clang \
+        curl \
+        doxygen \
+        fuse \
+        g++ \
+        gcc \
+        git \
+        gnupg-agent \
+        libbz2-dev \
+        libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+        libfuse-dev \
+        libprotobuf-dev \
+        libprotoc-dev \
+        libsasl2-dev \
+        libsnappy-dev \
+        libssl-dev \
+        libtool \
+        locales \
+        make \
+        pinentry-curses \
+        pkg-config \
+        python \
+        python2.7 \
+        python-pip \
+        python-pkg-resources \
+        python-setuptools \
+        python-wheel \
+        rsync \
+        software-properties-common \
+        snappy \
+        sudo \
+        valgrind \
+        zlib1g-dev \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+
+#######
+# OpenJDK 8
+#######
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008
+RUN apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends openjdk-8-jdk libbcprov-java \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+
+######
+# Install cmake 3.1.0 (3.5.1 ships with Xenial)
+######
+RUN mkdir -p /opt/cmake \
+    && curl -L -s -S \
+      https://cmake.org/files/v3.1/cmake-3.1.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
+      -o /opt/cmake.tar.gz \
+    && tar xzf /opt/cmake.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /opt/cmake
+ENV CMAKE_HOME /opt/cmake
+ENV PATH "${PATH}:/opt/cmake/bin"
+
+######
+# Install Google Protobuf 2.5.0 (2.6.0 ships with Xenial)
+######
+# hadolint ignore=DL3003
+RUN mkdir -p /opt/protobuf-src \
+    && curl -L -s -S \
+      https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v2.5.0/protobuf-2.5.0.tar.gz \
+      -o /opt/protobuf.tar.gz \
+    && tar xzf /opt/protobuf.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /opt/protobuf-src \
+    && cd /opt/protobuf-src \
+    && ./configure --prefix=/opt/protobuf \
+    && make install \
+    && cd /root \
+    && rm -rf /opt/protobuf-src
+ENV PROTOBUF_HOME /opt/protobuf
+ENV PATH "${PATH}:/opt/protobuf/bin"
+
+######
+# Install Apache Maven 3.3.9 (3.3.9 ships with Xenial)
+######
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008
+RUN apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends maven \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+ENV MAVEN_HOME /usr
+
+######
+# Install findbugs 3.0.1 (3.0.1 ships with Xenial)
+# Ant is needed for findbugs
+######
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008
+RUN apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends findbugs ant \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+ENV FINDBUGS_HOME /usr
+
+####
+# Install shellcheck (0.4.6, the latest as of 2017-09-26)
+####
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008
+RUN add-apt-repository -y ppa:jonathonf/ghc-8.0.2 \
+    && apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends shellcheck \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+####
+# Install bats (0.4.0, the latest as of 2017-09-26, ships with Xenial)
+####
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008
+RUN apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends bats \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+####
+# Install pylint at fixed version (2.0.0 removed python2 support)
+# https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2294
+####
+RUN pip2 install pylint==1.9.2
+
+####
+# Install dateutil.parser
+####
+RUN pip2 install python-dateutil==2.7.3
+
+###
+# Install node.js for web UI framework (4.2.6 ships with Xenial)
+###
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008, DL3016
+RUN apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs npm \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
+    && ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node \
+    && npm install npm@latest -g \
+    && npm install -g jshint
+
+###
+# Install hadolint
+####
+RUN curl -L -s -S \
+        https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint/releases/download/v1.11.1/hadolint-Linux-x86_64 \
+        -o /bin/hadolint \
+   && chmod a+rx /bin/hadolint \
+   && shasum -a 512 /bin/hadolint | \
+        awk '$1!="734e37c1f6619cbbd86b9b249e69c9af8ee1ea87a2b1ff71dccda412e9dac35e63425225a95d71572091a3f0a11e9a04c2fc25d9e91b840530c26af32b9891ca" {exit(1)}'
+
+###
+# Avoid out of memory errors in builds
+###
+ENV MAVEN_OPTS -Xms256m -Xmx1536m
+
+
+###
+# Everything past this point is either not needed for testing or breaks Yetus.
+# So tell Yetus not to read the rest of the file:
+# YETUS CUT HERE
+###
+
+####
+# Install svn & Forrest (for Apache Hadoop website)
+###
+# hadolint ignore=DL3008
+RUN apt-get -q update \
+    && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends subversion \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+RUN mkdir -p /opt/apache-forrest \
+    && curl -L -s -S \
+      https://archive.apache.org/dist/forrest/0.8/apache-forrest-0.8.tar.gz \
+      -o /opt/forrest.tar.gz \
+    && tar xzf /opt/forrest.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /opt/apache-forrest
+RUN echo 'forrest.home=/opt/apache-forrest' > build.properties
+ENV FORREST_HOME=/opt/apache-forrest
+
+# Hugo static website generator (for new tez site and Ozone docs)
+RUN curl -L -o hugo.deb https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.30.2/hugo_0.30.2_Linux-64bit.deb \
+    && dpkg --install hugo.deb \
+    && rm hugo.deb
+
+# Add a welcome message and environment checks.
+COPY tez_env_checks.sh /root/tez_env_checks.sh
+RUN chmod 755 /root/tez_env_checks.sh
+# hadolint ignore=SC2016
+RUN echo '${HOME}/tez_env_checks.sh' >> /root/.bashrc
diff --git a/build-tools/docker/tez_env_checks.sh b/build-tools/docker/tez_env_checks.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# 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.
+
+# SHELLDOC-IGNORE
+
+# -------------------------------------------------------
+function showWelcome {
+cat <<Welcome-message
+
+ _   _           _                    ______
+| | | |         | |                   |  _  \\
+| |_| | __ _  __| | ___   ___  _ __   | | | |_____   __
+|  _  |/ _\` |/ _\` |/ _ \\ / _ \\| '_ \\  | | | / _ \\ \\ / /
+| | | | (_| | (_| | (_) | (_) | |_) | | |/ /  __/\\ V /
+\\_| |_/\\__,_|\\__,_|\\___/ \\___/| .__/  |___/ \\___| \\_(_)
+                              | |
+                              |_|
+
+This is the standard Hadoop Developer build environment.
+This has all the right tools installed required to build
+Hadoop from source.
+
+Welcome-message
+}
+
+# -------------------------------------------------------
+
+function showAbort {
+  cat <<Abort-message
+
+  ___  _                _   _
+ / _ \\| |              | | (_)
+/ /_\\ \\ |__   ___  _ __| |_ _ _ __   __ _
+|  _  | '_ \\ / _ \\| '__| __| | '_ \\ / _\` |
+| | | | |_) | (_) | |  | |_| | | | | (_| |
+\\_| |_/_.__/ \\___/|_|   \\__|_|_| |_|\\__, |
+                                     __/ |
+                                    |___/
+
+Abort-message
+}
+
+# -------------------------------------------------------
+
+function failIfUserIsRoot {
+    if [ "$(id -u)" -eq "0" ]; # If you are root then something went wrong.
+    then
+        cat <<End-of-message
+
+Apparently you are inside this docker container as the user root.
+Putting it simply:
+
+   This should not occur.
+
+Known possible causes of this are:
+1) Running this script as the root user ( Just don't )
+2) Running an old docker version ( upgrade to 1.4.1 or higher )
+
+End-of-message
+
+    showAbort
+
+    logout
+
+    fi
+}
+
+# -------------------------------------------------------
+
+function warnIfLowMemory {
+    MINIMAL_MEMORY=2046755
+    INSTALLED_MEMORY=$(grep -F MemTotal /proc/meminfo | awk '{print $2}')
+    if [[ $((INSTALLED_MEMORY)) -lt $((MINIMAL_MEMORY)) ]]; then
+        cat <<End-of-message
+
+ _                    ___  ___
+| |                   |  \\/  |
+| |     _____      __ | .  . | ___ _ __ ___   ___  _ __ _   _
+| |    / _ \\ \\ /\\ / / | |\\/| |/ _ \\ '_ \` _ \\ / _ \\| '__| | | |
+| |___| (_) \\ V  V /  | |  | |  __/ | | | | | (_) | |  | |_| |
+\\_____/\\___/ \\_/\\_/   \\_|  |_/\\___|_| |_| |_|\\___/|_|   \\__, |
+                                                         __/ |
+                                                        |___/
+
+Your system is running on very little memory.
+This means it may work but it wil most likely be slower than needed.
+
+If you are running this via boot2docker you can simply increase
+the available memory to at least ${MINIMAL_MEMORY}KiB
+(you have ${INSTALLED_MEMORY}KiB )
+
+End-of-message
+    fi
+}
+
+# -------------------------------------------------------
+
+showWelcome
+warnIfLowMemory
+failIfUserIsRoot
+
+# -------------------------------------------------------