Dockerizing Shiny Applications

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  • This post is based on the analythium/shinyproxy-hello GitLab project. Readt about the Shiny example and basic docker concepts before continuing. The project contains the demo Shiny app in the app folder:

  • littler

    A scripting and command-line front-end for GNU R

  • The following RUN command uses the littler command line interface shipped with the r-base image to install the Shiny package and its dependencies:

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  • hadolint

    Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

  • Switching to the root USER opens up certain security risks if an attacker gets access to the container. In order to mitigate this, switch back to a non privileged user after running the commands you need as root. – Hadolint rule DL3002

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