Docker image reproducible and making biodocker the user is restrictive
mhalagan opened this issue · comments
The docker image can't be rebuilt locally because the source image biodckr/biodocker does not exist anymore. Also, making the USER biodocker means that a biodocker user needs to exist on whatever machine this container is being run on or the data and folders have to be read and writable by everyone.
The base image has been updated and the Dockerfile should be recompilable now (#54).
We chose BioDocker as base image and follow its guidelines because it is one of the largest Bioinformatics Docker projects. The use of biodocker as default user is a security measure and is recommended in the best practice guide of BioDocker.