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Questions: container registries

Open sunyi000 opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

I have a quick question:

Where are the container images stored? From the architecture diagram, it seems that biocontainer uses both quay.io and dockerhub, but how do I know which image is in which registry?

Thanks

sunyi000 avatar Mar 08 '24 15:03 sunyi000

If I may add to that question a concrete example:

There's dockerfiles for ilastik: https://github.com/BioContainers/containers/tree/master/ilastik How would I know where to find a container. The search on biocontainers.pro does not really turn up anything useful. Should it?

Also I found the container then on dockerhub, should it also be on quay.io, or are these used exclusively?

k-dominik avatar Mar 15 '24 11:03 k-dominik

Hello,

So, there are two main sources of docker images:

  • This repository, which build the images on https://hub.docker.com/orgs/biocontainers/repositories
  • The bioconda channel recipes, where every conda package built has a docker image available on quay.io: Example

So, for ilastik, the image will be here

Sorry, the readme is not very clear, I have been meaning to rewrite it. Regarding biocontainers, it should return relevant information, but the backend seems to be bugged at the moment.

mboudet avatar Mar 29 '24 15:03 mboudet