Thanks so much Allan. That sounds like a success story. I will take a look at your new Docker file as soon as I get a chance.
- Jeff On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Allan Inocêncio de Souza Costa < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I have created a Dockerfile for NuPIC a few weeks ago, but it was a little > hacky. Today I updated the Dockerfile in Github ( > https://github.com/Allanino/docker-nupic/blob/master/Dockerfile) so that > it installs the Python dependendies from the requeriments.txt ( > https://github.com/numenta/nupic/blob/master/external/common/requirements.txt). > After that change, the hacks are no more necessary. The Docker container > pass all the unit tests for NuPIC and run fine the hotgym example. > > As a testimony of Docker usage, recently I finished a project that uses > NuPIC to catch anomalies in servers response times. I used Docker to put > NuPIC with all my Python scripts into a single container (including a > script to deliver a static html with real-time graphs of the results). To > deploy the project, I only started an Amazon EC2 instance running CoreOS > and executed a single command inside it to start the container. > > I have worked with Docker only for a month, but if you need any help maybe > I could give you a hand, so feel free to ask. > > Best regards, > Allan > > > Em Quinta-feira, 14 de Novembro de 2013 14:10, " > [email protected]" <[email protected]> > escreveu: > > Hi Marek - > > Yes, you can manage whatever you like in a VM. That is actually the point > of Docker - that you don't have to. As we have seen, keeping the > environment up to date with changes in the codebase can be a challenge as > the core developers plow ahead. With Docker, the environment dependencies > are part of the package (but don't conflict with your host system > packages). So, let's say that the team decides that they need to upgrade to > the latest version of numpy in order to do something new on NuPIC. Other > developers pull down the latest changes to NuPIC, and now their code no > longer works, because they don't have the proper version of numpy. With > Docker, they can pull down the changes to NuPIC plus the numpy update all > at once using a git-like interface. They don't have to download an entirely > new VM, or install numpy on their own. Just what you need. Kind of the best > of both worlds (somewhere between a VM, and managing all of your own > packages natively). > > All that being said, I haven't actually spent much time with Docker, and I > am still fiddling with it, checking it out. If other people have tried > working with Docker and have stories to tell, please share. Here is a video > with some guys talking about it that kind of helps describe them: Linux > Action Show! <http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/37396/> Skip to minute > > 0:47:00 > > Also, there is the Docker website: https://www.docker.io/ > > - Jeff > > > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > >
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