image-common

Common packages and configuration files for Nimbix base images. This will retrofit existing Docker images for better execution on JARVICE.

If you have an image derived from a non-Nimbix base, and you want to improve its execution on JARVICE, there is now a simple way to do this in your Dockerfile without having to change your FROM line. Currently, we only support CentOS and Ubuntu with this trick.

Verified distributions:

• CentOS 7 (x86_64, ppc64le)
• Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial (amd64, ppc64le)
• Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic (amd64, ppc64le)

Just add this to the end of your Dockerfile:

Ubuntu

RUN apt-get -y update && \
    DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install curl && \
    curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nimbix/image-common/master/install-nimbix.sh \
        | bash

# Expose port 22 for local JARVICE emulation in docker
EXPOSE 22

Ubuntu (with Nimbix desktop)

RUN apt-get -y update && \
    DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install curl && \
    curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nimbix/image-common/master/install-nimbix.sh \
        | bash -s -- --setup-nimbix-desktop

# Expose port 22 for local JARVICE emulation in docker
EXPOSE 22

# for standalone use
EXPOSE 5901
EXPOSE 443

CentOS

RUN curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nimbix/image-common/master/install-nimbix.sh \
        | bash

# Expose port 22 for local JARVICE emulation in docker
EXPOSE 22

CentOS (with Nimbix desktop)

RUN curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nimbix/image-common/master/install-nimbix.sh \
        | bash -s -- --setup-nimbix-desktop

# Expose port 22 for local JARVICE emulation in docker
EXPOSE 22

# for standalone use
EXPOSE 5901
EXPOSE 443

This does several things:

1. installs recommended packages for running on JARVICE
2. makes sure SSH actually starts (important when using nvidia/ base images for example)
3. sets up the nimbix user, and gives it password-less sudo access
4. configures JARVICE "emulation" for local testing (see our PushToCompute tutorial for more on that)
5. preserves the Docker environment variables and makes sure they are set when you run in JARVICE as well

Docker build caching of install-nimbix.sh layer

While developing an app and subsequently running multiple docker builds, it can be easy to be thrown off by the caching of successfully built layers. Docker will not be able to pick up changes to install-nimbix.sh in the image-common git repository. Thus, if the layer's RUN instruction has not changed, it may not be rebuilt if it has previously executed successfully.

Using an easily updatable ENV instruction is a simple way to invalidate a layer and force it to be rebuilt. Simply add an instruction like this before your RUN of install-nimbix.sh or any other layers you wish to easily invalidate by changing the SERIAL_NUMBER:

# Update SERIAL_NUMBER to force rebuild of subsequent layers
#   (i.e. don't use cached layers)
ENV SERIAL_NUMBER 20171009.1713

Allow more control by using --build-arg with a local docker build command line:

# Update SERIAL_NUMBER to force rebuild of subsequent layers
#   (i.e. don't use cached layers)
ARG SERIAL_NUMBER
ENV SERIAL_NUMBER ${SERIAL_NUMBER:-20171009.1713}