Docker arbitrary argument

[gaow]

I have a docker image that only works with an additional option -e HOME=/seqlink. That is, the docker command should be:

docker run ... -e HOME=/seqlink ...

But currently it does not seem we can add this information to allow for these options. What should I do for this case?

[BoPeng]

Did you try environment='HOME=/seqlink'? environment={'HOME': '/seqlink'} should also work.

[BoPeng]

I will move the ticket to sos-docs if the option works. Options that need to be documented include environment, mem_limit, volumes_from, port, name, stdin_open, tty, user, extra_args. I think only volumes is documented.

[gaow]

@BoPeng thank you it does work! Yes let's move this ticket to sos-doc repo.

[BoPeng]

@joannfeng Good way for you to learn docker. Basically you need to set things up and be able to run examples in https://github.com/vatlab/sos-docs/blob/master/src/user_guide/docker.ipynb (check out this repo, open src/user_guide/docker.ipynb, and run).

Then have a look at https://github.com/vatlab/sos/blob/master/src/sos/docker/client.py#L312 and you can figure out there are parameters that not documented.

Add one or sections on how to use these parameters, refer to https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/ if needed.

Create a PR for additional documentation on this tutorial.