Provide supported base image(s) for SageMaker
blairj09 opened this issue · comments
RStudio on SageMaker currently supplies two distinct base images that correspond to the two versions of Posit Workbench that have been used in SageMaker:
The challenge is that each of these images is based on Ubuntu 18 which is EOL and no longer supported by Posit products. This is of particular concern with SageMaker because it means that binary package installations from Package Manager will not be supported since we no longer build binaries for Ubuntu 18.04.
I propose we build/supply a SageMaker-specific base image(s). We won't be able to provide these as default options for SageMaker users automatically, but we could distribute our images in ECR and document how customers could enable access to them within their environments.
While SageMaker will periodically update their existing base images, I think it makes sense for us to continue to provide our own base images that stay up to date with latest OS and R changes/dependencies. This way, we can better support customers who want an up-to-date SageMaker image but don't want/have capacity to build and implement it from scratch.
@blairj09 Is this related to the changes @MariaSemple started in #624 ?