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Torus: A Toolkit for Docker-First Data Science

by augustflanagan on 6/6/18, 6:14 PM with 13 comments

• by saamm on 6/6/18, 8:35 PM

  This is interesting! It sounds like this v1 gets your local environment up and running in a Docker container. I maintain something similar for analysts on my team, and we've seen success in terms of decreasing time spent on environment setup.

  As another interesting use of Docker in the data space, I'm excited about Pachyderm [0] (though I haven't had the chance to use it in production). In particular, the data provenance story seems compelling.

  0: https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm

• by zimbatm on 6/6/18, 9:17 PM

  No to confuse with this other company at https://manifold.io/ (io, not ai) which deprecated their https://www.torus.sh/ project :)

• by robohamburger on 6/6/18, 9:56 PM

  I think a more interesting direction would be for jupyter lab to ship an electron app and have it able to understand how to spin up and talk to containerized kernels.

  I made a hacky version for work that proxies to a k8s pod but first class support would be cool.

• by mr_toad on 6/7/18, 7:02 AM

  Is cookie cutter running inside the docker container or on the host? The instructions imply setting up python, virtualenv, pip and cookie cutter all on the local machine...

• by stmw on 6/7/18, 4:37 AM

  Isn't this was Pachyderm was supposed to do?