Re: [galaxy-dev] Docker and alpine linux

2016-02-28 Thread Björn Grüning
Am 23.02.2016 um 10:13 schrieb Marius van den Beek: > Just my 2 cents about this: > I feel your pain, our connection to the docker hub is horrible, it takes > an hour to pull the GIE images ... . > (While it only takes seconds from the cloud ...). This is a Dockerhub related issue and we offer a

Re: [galaxy-dev] Docker and alpine linux

2016-02-23 Thread Marius van den Beek
Just my 2 cents about this: I feel your pain, our connection to the docker hub is horrible, it takes an hour to pull the GIE images ... . (While it only takes seconds from the cloud ...). The galaxy docker images are pretty fat, because we use them VM-style, in principle nothing wrong about that. S

Re: [galaxy-dev] Docker and alpine linux

2016-02-23 Thread Björn Grüning
Hi Tiago, thanks for the heads-up. I also tried alpine some time ago but Galaxy needs some external dependencies which Nate is building also with a ppa for Debian based systems. So this is not so easy to migrate. What we could do is to orchestrate the containers and its deps: https://github.com/

[galaxy-dev] Docker and alpine linux

2016-02-22 Thread Tiago Antao
Dear all, This email is mostly to report a negative result, maybe to help others _not_ trying something. I researched the possibility of replacing ubuntu with alpine on the Docker images (alpine seems to be used more and more on docker images, with plenty of official containers now based on it an