Using Docker in the VO

[Ray Plante]

Hey Dave,

We're using Docker in a platform called NDS Labs, which is a project 
of the US National Data Service initiative (nationaldataservice.org).  
You can find more info about it at 
http://labsportal.nationaldataservice.org/.

One of the projects we're hosting in that environment is one that 
allows users to provide python or R (or ...) scripts to be run safely 
against a remote dataset.  One of the apps we run in a Docker 
container is the IPython notebook.  

cheers,
Ray

On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Dave Morris wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is anyone using Docker?
> https://www.docker.com/
> 
> We are starting to use it both for deploying services and for wrapping
> applications.
> 
> A recent paper looks at using Docker to wrap applications like R, which might
> have interesting applications in our field.
> http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0846v1
> 
> If anyone is interested in using Docker in the VO let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
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> Dave Morris
> Software Developer
> Wide Field Astronomy Unit
> Institute for Astronomy
> University of Edinburgh
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