This lesson is in the early stages of development (Alpha version)

Reproducible computational environments using containers: Setup

Website accounts to create

Please seek help at the start of the lesson if you have not been able to establish a website account on:

Software to install

Unfortunately, in many common situations installing Docker on your laptop will not straightforward if you do not have a large amount of technical experience. We have helpers on hand that have worked their way through the install process but be prepared for some troubleshooting.

Please try to install the appropriate software from the list below depending on the operating system that your laptop is running:

Microsoft Windows

You must have admin rights to run docker! Some parts of the lesson will work without running as admin but if you are unable to Run as admin on your machine some of this workshop might not work easily.

If you have Windows 10 Pro Edition:

If you have Windows 10 Home Edition:

Apple macOS

Either:

Linux:

There are too many varieties of Linux to give precise instructions here, but hopefully you can locate documentation for getting Docker installed on your Linux distribution. It may already be installed. Note that Docker do list a number of versions of the Docker Engine for different Linux distributions, at https://hub.docker.com/search/?type=edition&offering=community

A quick tutorial on copy/pasting file contents from episodes of the lesson

Let’s say you want to copy text off the lesson website and paste it into a file named myfile in the current working directory of a shell window. This can be achieved in many ways, depending on your laptop’s operating system, but routes I have found work for me: