Introduction

In the beginning of 2020 the HIFIS team conducted a survey among Helmholtz scientists with the goals of learning more about the current practices concerning research software development and identifying future challenges.

The HIFIS Software survey gathered information from Helmholtz research groups about their development practice. This post shows some insights from a technology perspective and tries to make some conclusions for the future direction of HIFIS Software technology services.

The final part in the "Getting Started with Docker" series: Having explored how to use Docker in a general sense, we will look at how Docker can be used practically in your day-to-day scientific work.

Previously, we learned about Docker, and how to run other people's Docker containers. In this post, we will explore building our own images to package up our projects.

Understanding Docker probably won't solve all of your problems, but it can be a really useful tool when trying to build reproducible software that will run almost anywhere. In this series of blog posts, we will explore how to setup and use Docker for scientific applications.