Re: Auto creation of docker images from Debian (Med) packages?
Hi Michael,
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 05:26:18PM +0200, Michael Crusoe wrote:
> A quick internet search failed me, so my apologies if the answer to this is
> well known.
I do not know anything about such a service that sounds very sensible.
Would be probably a nice Outreachy / GSoC project.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> Is there a service that automatically builds software containers for each
> Debian Med application* package?
>
> As discussed at this week's biocontainers workshop, while they themselves
> won't be building containers for non-bioconda packages, they are happy to
> list container images built by other communities.
>
> So wherever we have a Debian package for a bio/med app that isn't in
> bioconda, it would be nice to auto create a Docker/Singularity container
> for inclusion in the biocontainers.pro registry. Since the container build
> process would be mostly just `apt install ${package}` (and thus fairly
> quick) we can leverage existing free services to keep these up to date.
>
> *Non-library, non-dev, non-service. Basically the command line tools used
> by researchers to perform data analysis and transformation.
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