cityofcapetown/datascience repository overview

⁠City of Cape Town's Datascience Docker Images

This repository contains cascading image tags used for Datascience at the City of Cape Town by the Organisational Performance Management branch.

⁠Overview

The current structure of these image tags (and the repo):

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└── base
    └── drivers
        └── python_minimal
            └── python
                └── jupyter-k8s
                    └── rsession

Overview of the tags:

• base - based on Ubuntu 18.04. Contains various utilities, a NGINX reverse proxy and a run script.
• drivers - Installs various drivers, include ODBC as well as Selenium.
• python_minimal - Installs Python3 and a limited selection of python packages (see here⁠).
• python - Installs many Python packages (see here⁠).
• jupyter-k8s - Installs and runs Jupyterlab on top of python
• rsession - TBC

⁠Usage

These images are intented to be used either as part of a Jupyterhub setup, or as the base for airflow jobs.

To enter an image and poke around (useful for checking whether a dependency is statisfied), use the docker exec command to start a bash shell, e.g.

docker exec -it -rm cityofcapetown/datascience:python bash