New REP docker version running in /var/lib/docker/volumes/ instead of ~/rep_container

[lodurality]

Hi.

I had old REP docker version in ~/rep_container which started with run.sh script on 8080 port. I updated REP and it broke: sudo $REPDIR/run.sh worked, but I couldn't connect to localhost:8080 (connection refused). I've decided to update docker and REP according to new instructions: https://github.com/yandex/rep/wiki/Install-REP-with-Docker-(Linux).

1. I installed Docker, according to instructions.
2. netstat -anl | grep 8888 gave empty result
3. git checkout https://github.com/yandex/rep.git didn't work (pathspec did not match any file(s) known to git), so I used git clone instead.
4. First run of sudo make run was successful and installed container.
5. I rebooted and second sudo make run gave the following

docker run -ti --rm -p 8888:8888 --name rep yandex/rep:0.6.4
Error response from daemon: Conflict. The name "rep" is already in use by container 3af0884aeedb. You have to remove (or rename) that container to be able to reuse that name. make: ** [run] Error 1*

6. I ran sudo docker images

_REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE yandex/rep 0.6.4 18a48bc5a3b6 8 hours ago 2.635 GB anaderi/rep latest 63c3db2850b6 4 months ago 1.649 GB

91c95931e552 7 months ago 910 B_ 7. I tried `sudo docker start rep`. It worked and I opned REP on localhost:8888. But its working folder changed. Now it is /var/lib/docker/volumes/dbcc7ff99538007d9c6b244fb6b8f03bdcfd564f6076b36d79fa3330d2041107/_data/. It is quite unhandy, because it requires superuser rights to access and not conveniently located at all. Question: Is it a new system or did I something wrong? If latter, how to I fix it and run REP container in handy folder?

[anaderi]

@lodurality , thanks for reporting. Indeed we’ve changed things a bit how REP runs within Docker. in particular:

• default port number is back to Jupyter default port number 8888
• for most docker commands you have to use make

Also

• thanks for typo notice: «git checkout» -> «git clone» on Wiki
• between step 5 & 6 it was complaining about container with name ‘rep’, not image. so to clear previous one, just run make remove

• I’ve added option for make to specify notebooks folder - -e NOTEBOOKS=path_my_notebooks_folder (pick it from https://github.com/anaderi/rep/blob/master/Makefile) e.g.:

  make -e NOTEBOOKS=~/notebooks run

PS you don’t have to use sudo (after adding yourself to docker group by usermod -G docker $(whoami))

[lodurality]

It looks like make doesn't see/use this option. Here is what I did:

1. I removed all containers and images.
2. Added myself to docker group.
3. Changed Makefile in rep directory for a new one.
4. Installed REP container again
5. Tried make -e NOTEBOOKS=~/notebooks run, but it still starts notebook in in /var/lib/docker/volumes/.../_data/.
6. Also tried to run it with option NOTEBOOK_DIR instead of NOTEBOOKS, because I found the following code in output, but it didn't work either.

    NOTEBOOK_DIR=/notebooks
    git clone $JPY_GITHUBURL $NOTEBOOK_DIR
    $HOME/miniconda/envs/jupyterhub_py3/bin/jupyterhub-singleuser \
      --port=8888 \
      --ip=0.0.0.0 \
      --user=$JPY_USER \
      --cookie-name=$JPY_COOKIE_NAME \
      --base-url=$JPY_BASE_URL \
      --hub-prefix=$JPY_HUB_PREFIX \
      --hub-api-url=$JPY_HUB_API_URL \
      --notebook-dir=$NOTEBOOK_DIR
    exit $?