In order to provide a simple portable conda-based environment. This repo contains what is necessary to build a CentOS 6 based image using Docker. In addition, it provides a copy of anaconda-client and conda with some extensions for building.
This repo is part of an automated build, which is hosted on Docker Hub ( https://hub.docker.com/r/jakirkham/centos_conda ). Changes added to this trigger an automatic rebuild and deploy the resulting image to Docker Hub. To download an existing image, one simply needs to run docker pull jakirkham/centos_conda.
If one wishes to develop this repo, building will need to be performed manually. This container can be built simply by cding into the repo and using docker build --rm -t <NAME> . where <NAME> is the name tagged to the image built. More information about building can be found in Docker's documentation ( https://docs.docker.com/reference/builder ). Please consider opening a pull request for changes that you make.
A CircleCI build of the image is performed on each commit. conda is exercised to update the root environments to match those in conda-forge.
Once an image is acquired either from one of the provided builds or manually, the image is designed to provide a preconfigured shell environment. Simply run docker run --rm -it <NAME>. This starts up bash with a copy of conda in Python 2 and Python 3 environments available. In the case of an automated build, <NAME> is jakirkham/centos_conda.