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This is an awesome use case. Back when I was in particle physics we had to use ROOT (https://root.cern.ch/) for everything, and configuring it in a new environment would take at least a day.

What kind of bioinformatics software are you plugging into a webapp?

you can! I found it difficult to work with and decided to make something new after reading this post: http://blog.bordage.pro/avoid-docker-py/ It's a few years old but I think docker-py still needs some love for it to really shine.

Absolutely, we use it especially because our servers are linux and our personal machines are mac. Most of our app is not containerized but sidomo helps us make the 'fiddly bits' (e.g., ffmpeg) super portable.

map(print, ["ok", "flat is better", "but", "the with statement", "is badass"])

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Hi, I'm one of the devs.

That's totally true, but it means the python app can only run in the same container as the process. I thought there were essentially 2 really cool features of this: you don't have to clean up after your (sub)processes and your docker daemon could be running remotely. (e.g., you could distribute tasks to a bunch of servers running your containers)

How fast do you think this could be made to work? AWS spot instance termination notifications give you a 2 min warning.