Running a SCIPY docker box in Windows

Docker+scipy

To run docker on windows to run a new image, let's say mingfang/docker-ipython:

install boot2docker from docker site

Once installed you have to run a cmd as administrator and then:

: boot2docker start
: boot2docker ssh

Once there you can pull a repo, like:

git clone https://github.com/mingfang/docker-ipython.git

cd docker-ipython
docker build -t ipython .     # to build the image, this will take a while

Once done you can start the container by running:

docker run -v `pwd`:/ipython -p 49888:8888 -d -t ipython /usr/sbin/runsvdir-start&

This will start a new container from the recently build image and will run the runsvdir-start command inside it, which will start ssh and apache servers.

Once done, you can connect to the iPython Notebook by opening a browser to the ip returned by:

boot2docker ip (from the Windows Command Line)

i.e.: http://192.168.59.103:49888 (49888 is the redirected port 8888 from the container to the boot2docker box)

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, DON'T FORGET TO RUN boot2docker save (in windows cli) before stopping the box if you want to save the changes

Hope it helps!