Technical Infrastructure
This page gives more detail on the technical infrastructure used in the Data 8 class and connector courses. It will be populated with more information soon.
Docker is a platform for storing computing environments in a "package" that can be easily shared with other people, copied, built upon, etc. It is a fundamental tool that allows data8 to quickly duplicate computing environments and deploy them so that students all have the same environment on the cluster.
You can use docker locally on your machine if you'd like to replicate the exact environment (packages, resources, etc) that students will have access to. This can make developing materials for the class easier. We'll put a short guide on doing this below soon. In the meantime if you have questions about this, ping the support staff.