Description
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