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Ten Simple Rules for Writing Dockerfiles for Reproducible Data Science

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008316

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"try to design the `RUN` statements" #34

Closed psychemedia closed 4 years ago

psychemedia commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/nuest/ten-simple-rules-dockerfiles/blob/4a87e3e3ad43feacd98722f1521e500191bb17bb/ten-simple-rules-dockerfiles.Rmd#L205

This also speaks to optimisation of an each; each statement generates a layer in the container, so to build efficient images you may want to have some quite convoluted RUN statements. Good layout, and convention in writing individual RUN lines, can help here.

nuest commented 4 years ago

Are convoluted RUN statements always bad from your point of view?

Can you check the current draft for specific missing conventions and layout tips that you'd like to add?