ukgovdatascience/blockbuster-docker repository overview

⁠blockbuster-docker

The Dockerfile⁠ in this repository fixes an environment for developing the blockbuster⁠ package to ensure reproducibility going forward, and to make package development cross platform easier.

⁠How to use

A Dockerfile⁠ provides a list of instructions for building a lightweight virtual machine (contaienr) in which a process can be run.

There are two ways to make use of this container image:

• Clone the contents of this repo, and recreate the docker container locally using docker build -t blockbuster:latest ..
• Pull the complete container from the automatic build that takes place on docker hub⁠ with docker pull ukgovdatascience/latest

For each of these methods, you will need to have docker installed. A good guide for installing docker is provided here⁠.

The container can then be run using docker run -it ukgovdatascience/blockbuster:latest /bin/bash to open a shell within the container.