Let other people care about the installation procedures. The best thing about docker is that you get your app installed and running with just one line of code. I am listing here my favorite docker images and one-liners to run them.

My favorite way to run docker containers is a virtual machine on Digital Ocean with Ubuntu and docker preinstalled (see ‘How to start Digital Ocean droplet?’ here ).

RStudio Server

I use rocker/hadleyverse docker image

docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -e USER=rstudio -e PASSWORD=your_secret_password rocker/hadleyverse

And I also have my own versions with additional R packages preinstalled:

docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -e USER=rstudio -e PASSWORD=your_secret_password simecek/rstudio

Even if you forgot to install some software, you can always log into running docker container and do so.

Shiny Server

If you do not want to pay for shinyapps.io, you need to run your own Shiny Server. Note I use -v option to attach \shiny folder with my shiny applications.

docker run -d -p 3838:3838 -v /shiny/:/srv/shiny-server/ -v /srv/shinylog:/var/log rocker/shiny

Jupyter Notebook

An easy way to get Jupyter Notebook with Python 2, Python 3 and R.

sudo docker run -d -p 80:8888 --restart=always --name dsnb jupyter/datascience-notebook start-notebook.sh --NotebookApp.password='sha1:YOUR*PASSWD*SHA1'

Also, Kaggle offers more fancy IPython notebook with numerous machine learning packages preinstalled

docker run -v $PWD:/tmp/working -w=/tmp/working -p 8888:8888 --rm -it kaggle/python jupyter notebook --no-browser --ip="0.0.0.0" --notebook-dir=/tmp/working

And who would not like to try Google's deep learning TensorFlow module:

docker run -d -p 8888:8888 b.gcr.io/tensorflow/tensorflow sh -c "jupyter notebook /notebook"

Wordpress

Finally, just a few days ago I tried to run my own wordpress for the first time. It actually runs two containers: wordpress itself and the linked mysql container.

docker run --name wordpressdb -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=your_secret_password -e MYSQL_DATABASE=wordpress -d mysql
docker run -e WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD=your_secret_password -d --name wordpress --link wordpressdb:mysql -p 8080:80 -v "$PWD/wordpress/":/var/www/html  wordpress