marcodelapierre
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3 years ago Hi Barry, thanks for reaching out. I am unable to provide detailed support on this repo, which has mostly demo purposes. However, I am sharing some thoughts and links with you.
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One container with multiple Linux users set-up: have a look at this Github discussion on setting up multiple users within the RStudio container: https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/issues/206. You might create a script that generates the users, and run it inside the running container (maybe running the script can be embedded in the compose.yaml - can't recall). Or, you might embed user creation in a Dockerfile for the image (probably less flexible in terms of number of users). Either ways, you might need to take special care in passing user passwords, eg using Docker Secrets (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-secrets-management/) - disclaimer - I have never used the feature myself.
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Multiple containers with multiple ports: I don't have experience on this setup, not sure what is the best way to achieve it.
Either ways, remember you will need appropriately scaled compute resources (cores, ram, disk, ..) depending on the number of concurrent users.
Hope this can help.
quinfer
lachlancampbell
Hi and thanks for the fantastic repo. Could your set-up work for multiple users? Specifically, can the docker-compose yaml be modified to serve on multiple ports or should this be via the docker-gen yaml? Apologies for the ignorance on docker. I am attempting to set up a studio docker farm for teaching about 100 students behind security university access.