bionode/try-bionode repository overview

⁠try-bionode

Try bionode using docker

⁠Installation

docker pull bionode/try-bionode

⁠Usage

Simply run the image

docker run -it bionode/try-bionode

⁠Use with docker-browser-server

You can also use this image with adventure-time⁠

npm install -g docker-browser-server
docker-browser-server bionode/try-bionode # and then set adventure-time to point to localhost:8080

⁠How does http://try.bionode.io⁠ works?

The try.bionode.io⁠ website is a gh-pages hosted at bionode/get-bionode⁠. It contains a tutorial written in Markdown⁠ and uses WebSockets to connect to the instance (so it might have some issues on some networks due to firewalls). The instance that provides the online command line interface, editor and filesystem is a Docker container generated per-user each time they connect (i.e., they go to try.bionode.io⁠). These Docker containers come from a VM hosted on AWS. It's a basic Ubuntu VM with Docker and the following init script.

# located at /etc/init/bionode.conf
start on filesystem
exec docker-browser-server bionode/try-bionode --port 80 --persist

So docker-browser-server from the maxogden/adventure-time⁠ project is a server that listens for connections (from the gh-pages) and will create a Docker container per user by using the Docker image bionode/try-bionode⁠ which is published on the Docker hub⁠. The Dockerfile⁠ in that repo is the one that needs to be modified in order to include everything needed for the tutorial.

⁠License

MIT