A suite of tools aimed at making Iceberg REST Catalogs more approachable.

• ice-rest-catalog - A Kubernetes-ready Iceberg REST catalog backed by etcd.
  Run locally with a one-liner: ice-rest-catalog -c config.yaml.

• ice - A CLI for interacting with Iceberg REST catalogs.
  Create/delete tables, insert data with ice insert -p ns1.table1 file://example.parquet, etc.

Pre-built binaries* (+ links to Docker images for ice and ice-rest-catalog) are available form GitHub Releases page.

* currently require java 21+ to run (available here).

See examples/.

Install sdkman, then

git clone https://github.com/altinity/ice && cd ice

# optional but recommended
cp .envrc.sample .envrc
direnv allow

# switch to java specified in .sdkmanrc (done automatically by direnv if `direnv allow`ed)
sdk env
  
# shows how to build, test, etc. project
./mvnw

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ice is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

See LICENSE for more details.

ice is maintained by Altinity.
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