Other docker related stuff going on in the Taverna list. It may be useful to look at what they have done.
Marlon ________________________________________ From: Robert Haines [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 2:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Taverna Server docker images PS. If you want to be added to the Taverna Organization in the docker hub send me your username and I'll add you. Rob On 11/06/2015 19:16, Robert Haines wrote: > Hello, > >> We have some docker images here for Taverna Server >> >> https://registry.hub.docker.com/search?q=taverna&searchfield= >> >> >> Do you know who made them, how etc? Was it Rob? > > Yes it was me. > >> They seem to not have a corresponding Dockerfile, not built from >> Github, and also use their own packaging of JDK and Tomcat for some >> reason. > > All Dockerfiles, etc are here: https://github.com/taverna/taverna-docker > > They use their own build of the JDK, Tomcat, etc because at the time > there were no sensible alternatives. I.e. There were no headless JDK > images, and the tomcats all had a hundred other dependencies installed > (X etc) that made the resultant images a couple of GB in size. > > They're not set up to build automatically from GitHub I think because I > couldn't find a way to be able to then have multiple Taverna Server > versions available from the same place. This seemed important at the > time for testing, etc but may not be anymore - or things may have > changed with the hub. > >> Perhaps a quick and small Dockerfile to use a regular Tomcat Docker as >> "FROM" image, and install as ROOT.war could be a useful exercise. > > If there now exists a decent regular Tomcat Docker, with a decent > minimal JDK, it would be much better to use it than roll our own, > certainly. > > Cheers, > Rob > -- Robert Haines Research Software Engineering Manager, IT Services Honorary Lecturer, School of Computer Science University of Manchester
