Stan Docker Image Plans

This page serves to collect ideas for an official Stan Docker image. In a first step the use cases and requirements should be defined from which the technical implementation should be derived from.

Use cases

• Easy deployable (Docker)!
• Debugging and development of Stan by developers
• Reference platform for running Stan models in a reproducible manner (maybe use some Ubuntu LTS as basis?)
• Persistency / interaction with host system
• Harmonize interfaces (compiler & compiler settings)
• Rapid availability with each release (maybe even a dev version supporting to create the image from git hashes)
• Integration with Jenkins?
• RStan image should integrate the base Stan docker image and the Rocker project ideally, see https://hub.docker.com/u/rocker/

Features

• fast compiles (clang?)
• different compiler settings for modelling or Stan development
• support for compilation with ccache to speedup re-compilation
• persistency through Docker volumes(?) or local mounts
• pre-deploy Stan libraries such as the TBB, boost?