[ome-devel] Omero and docker

[Hadrien Mary]

Hi all,

I agree that OME installation is complex and the hardware(s) on which
it can be installed largely depends on the needs of users. These two
things make me think that it won't be possible to provide a "generic"
Dockerfile for OME.

Saying that I am focusing, as I already said in this thread, to build
a ready to use and easy to maintain set of Dockerfile for production.
I did some progress recently and you can see the repo here :
https://github.com/hadim/docker-omero.

The wole stuff is governed by a Makefile. I have a partial Fig support
and I would like in the future to remove the Makefile to only get a
Fig file. For now it's not possible because some features are
currently missing in Fig. So I don't have the same flexibility as I
have with the Makefile which make me impossible to easly open a shell
or launch backup/restore scripts.

Fig is young and wil be soon completely merged to Docker (with a new
name). I noticed some threads on Fig github issues
(https://github.com/docker/fig/issues) which make me think that all
the features I need will be available in a near future.

Best,



--
Hadrien Mary

Ph.D student in Biology
Tournier-Gachet Team
CNRS - LBCMCP - UMR 5088

Université de Toulouse - Bât. 4R3B1
118, route de Narbonne - 31062 Toulouse


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Harri Jäälinoja
<harri.jaalinoja at helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On 15/01/15 21:47, Josh Moore wrote:
>>
>> Will do. My other question for Hadrien was going to be whether we
>> could consolidate some of the base images into
>> https://registry.hub.docker.com/repos/openmicroscopy/  . I think in
>> general every involved group if not even every site will want to have
>> their own Dockerfiles and fig configuration. It will be more our goal
>> to reduce the cost of maintaining those.
>
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> just a comment, I think Dockerfiles and images maintained by openmicroscopy
> would/will be great to have. The less lines I need to put in my Dockerfile,
> the less possibilities for errors :)  In fact, also not I first tried to use
> openmicroscopy/omero-base, but ran into some strange error which Google hits
> suggested might have something to do with AUFS and available number of
> layers. Just to try something, I copy-pasted omero-base and it's parent into
> one Dockerfile and made it start from ubuntu:14.04, and it worked.
>
> Simon said you use Docker for testing and CI, I think this area would useful
> for us, who maintain the images based on the base images. I'd like to learn
> to set up a system where also the images I create are automatically tested,
> so that updates will be less worry.
>
> Cheers,
> Harri
>
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