NYU-BFX / docker2singularity-demo

A demo for converting Docker images to Singularity images.

docker2singularity Demo

This demo will convert a Docker container into a Singularity container, starting from a Dockerfile.

NOTE: Workflow designed for macOS with Docker and Vagrant installed, see Software notes below.

You can run the entire demo workflow with

make all

Step-wise Workflow

• create the demo Docker container for conversion to Singularity

make docker

• make sure the demo Docker is working

make docker-test

output:

FastQC v0.11.5

• setup the docker2singularity container and convert the demo Docker to Singularity

make docker2singularity

• load and test the converted Singularity container in Vagrant

make vagrant

output:

...
...
FastQC v0.11.5
Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.

• if something broke along the way, reset with:

make clean

Software

Tested with:

• Docker version 17.09.1-ce, build 19e2cf6

• Vagrant 2.0.1 (see installation notes in install_vagrant.md)

• macOS Sierra 10.12