Installing RadiaSoft Docker Containers

RadiaSoft provides Docker containers for our applications and other open source physics codes.

Automatic Installer (Mac, Linux, and Cygwin)

We support automatic installation of our Docker images on Unix-like systems with curl installers. You will need to Install Docker before proceeding with these instructions.

Sirepo

Most people use Sirepo in the cloud at sirepo.com. However, to run Sirepo locally, you can use this command:

$ curl https://sirepo.run | bash

Jupyter

We run a public JupyterHub at jupyter.radiasoft.org. You can also run our Jupyter Docker image with the same pre-installed of particle accelerator and beam simulation codes on your desktop with:

$ curl https://jupyter.run | bash

Other images and installers

To run a different installer, you simply pass it as an argument to bash. For example, to run the vagrant-sirepo-dev installer, which installs a Vagrant/VirtualBox development environment for Sirepo, just type:

$ curl https://radia.run | bash -s vagrant-sirepo-dev

radia_run command

If you use RadiaSoft's home environment (aka. dot files), you get the radia_run command, which makes it easier to run an installer, e.g.

$ radia_run vagrant-sirepo-dev

It is more convenient and also allows you to set an install_server, which is helpful for developing.

Quick Start if you already know Docker

If you already have Docker installed, you can run Sirepo with:

docker run -v $PWD:/sirepo -p 8000:8000 radiasoft/sirepo

If you would like to run our beamsim jupyter notebook server, do:

docker run -v $PWD:/home/vagrant/jupyter -p 8888:8888 radiasoft/beamsim-jupyter

Install Docker

Before installing RadiaSoft containers, you'll need to install Docker:

• Mac OS X

• Windows

• Linux

Startup Command

The output of the curl will also tell you how to connect to the server and/or login to the container. It will create a command in the directory with the same name as the container, which you can use to restart the container. For example, to restart sirepo, just type:

$ ./radia-run

Point your browser to:

http://127.0.0.1:8000

 * Running on http://0.0.0.0:8000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
 * Restarting with stat

Development Notes

To add a downloader, just add to installers directory. Make sure the name doesn't conflict with obvious words like verbose, debug, alpha, beta, etc. The command line is just a list of keywords that gets recognized by the installer.

You can also specify a file radiasoft-download.sh in any repo directory. The installer will go to that github repo for now.

To run installers, the root of the tree is ~/src so this file would be ~/src/radiasoft/download/README.md. If your home directory is not set up this way, the following will not work.

Installers can be run with a Python's http.server as follows:

bash etc/dev-server.sh

This command starts the http.server and outputs instructions on how to run installers in the local dev environment.

Serverless testing

Many of the installers can be tested with:

export install_server=file://$HOME/src
curl https://radia.run | install_debug=1 bash -s nersc-sirepo-update alpha

install.sh testing

To test with a github install_server, that is, to test install.sh itself, you an run it this way:

bash -s debug some/repo < download/bin/install.sh