Jan 7-8, 2016

Thursday, 9:15am-4:30pm

Friday, 9:15am-3pm

Instructors: C. Titus Brown, Luiz Irber, and maybe Carl Boettiger.

This hands-on workshop will introduce attendees to the basics of Docker, a containerization technology that can be used for running, wrapping, distributing, and publishing scientific software and workflows. Docker containers provide a lightweight computational framework for all of these things, and we intend that this workshop will provide a friendly and welcoming environment for trying it out.

People new to Docker are welcome to attend! We do suggest that attendees have some familiarity with the UNIX command line.

See the BIDS workshop page for venue information.

If you have a relatively recent laptop, please install the latest version of Docker by clicking "Get Started with Docker" on www.docker.com/ and following the instructions to install Docker. If you get to the end of the first step (docker run hello-world that is all you need!)

As a backup for installation problems, we will be using Amazon Web Services; please sign up for an account at http://aws.amazon.com/. After creating an account, you should sign in to the Console and click on the "EC2" compute service (upper left); it may ask you to activate your account via a phone number. Note that an Amazon Web Services account will also be useful for people interested in exploring docker-machine!

Attendees at this workshop are expected to abide by the Software Carpentry Code of Conduct. The local contact person for any concerns you may have during this workshop is:

Ali N. Ferguson
Communications Manager
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
190 Doe Library
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-664-4506
[email protected]
http://bids.berkeley.edu

The overall agenda is here.

The notes for the first day are available here.

The notes for the second day are available here.