docker/README.md

In weecology/portalPredictionsModels: Model and Forecast Portal Rodent Dynamics

portalcasting

Supporting automated forecasting of rodent populations through a set of containerized images.

Image set structure

The set of images is defined using a single Dockerfile with multi-stage build contexts to generate different types of the image.

There are currently three image types within the set:

• "base" (standard image used in production, no directory set up)
• "production" (comes with a production directory from the date of image creation)
• "sandbox" (comes with a sandbox directory from the date of image creation)

The production and sandbox images have "production_" or "sandbox_" appended to the tag as a prefix. The base image does not have a prefix.

None of the images are executable.

The image set is built using the Docker GitHub Action for any push or pull request to main in the portalcasting repository but is only pushed to Docker Hub upon creation of a published release.

Two copies of each the image type are pushed to Docker Hub:

• tagged with the release version
• tagged as "latest"

The production pipeline uses the "latest" tag from the base image allowing for an update of the container used without requiring a code update.

Acknowledgements

This project is developed in active collaboration with DAPPER Stats.

The motivating study—the Portal Project—has been funded nearly continuously since 1977 by the National Science Foundation, most recently by DEB-1622425 to S. K. M. Ernest. Much of the computational work was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Data-Driven Discovery Initiative through Grant GBMF4563 to E. P. White.

We thank Heather Bradley for logistical support, John Abatzoglou for assistance with climate forecasts, and James Brown for establishing the Portal Project.

weecology/portalPredictionsModels documentation built on Jan. 31, 2024, 12:03 p.m.