The ds-pet-containers Project - Pet Containers for Data Science

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [email protected], 2024-02-10

Update - 10 Feb 2024

New name, porting to Fedora Atomic Desktop / buildah / podman

Update - 29 May 2019

I’m inching towards a release. I’m spending most of my time self-dogfooding on two projects, one in sports analyics and another in deep learning. As a result I’ve added some features:

1. The rstats image now contains Miniconda3. There is a conda environment called r-tensorflow, which has the Python packages required by the RStudio deep learning stack plus pytorch and Jupyter. So you can bring up the services, browse to RStudio Server, log in, and then start up a Jupyter notebook server. Both Python 3 and R notebooks work.
2. I’ve gone back to docker-compose for starting up the services.
3. The rstats command line now can do passwordless sudo, just like those fancy instances on AWS or Digital Ocean.
4. I’m going to have autobuild images on Docker Hub. The rstats image is so big I don’t expect people to build it locally any more - it just takes too long.

Update - 16 May 2019

1. I’ve cleaned out the old docs inherited from Hack Oregon. That repository is still there and being maintained, so this fork will have its own docs in the near future.
2. The reference implementation is Fedora Silverblue 30. I’m also testing on Clear Linux, another container-centric Linux distro made by my neighbors at Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon. It’s highly optimized for Intel processors, of course. It should work anywhere Docker runs. Even Windows 10 Pro. I hope. :-)
3. PostgreSQL now goes to 11!
4. The renaming stays - we are Silver Potato until somebody sends me a cease-and-desist letter.

Update - 6 April 2019

You probably noticed the new name, silver-potato. I’ve been working a lot with Fedora Silverblue and wanted something with “silver” in it, so I asked GitHub to generate “memorable” project names. The second one it came up with was silver-potato and I said, “OK, cool, done!” Then today I did a Google search for “Silver Potato”. And …

http://www.kaiju.com/bios/sil_01.htm

So watch this space - there’s probably another rename coming.

Update - 17 September 2018

I’m forking this project to clean it up for use outside of Hack Oregon. There are a lot of things in there that are specific to Hack Oregon, like the Amazon Linux image, that don’t make sense for other users.

My working test environments are Windows 10 Pro with Docker for Windows, Arch Linux and Fedora Silverblue 29. This last - formerly known as Fedora Ataomic Workstation - was the original inspiration for doing this. The Silverblue environment is designed for a “pet-container-centric” workload.

I’m rebuilding the documentation with Bookdown. That’s in the source now but I haven’t published it anywhere. License will be Creative Commans Attribution Share-Alike.