Container Examples

To help with writing your own Dockerfiles to run within the Trusted Research Environment via the Container Execution Service, a set of examples for commonly used software stacks can be found in our TRE Container Samples repository.

Please contact your Service Manager if you need further support with the use of containers.

Example Containers

Application	Comments
Julia
Octave
PostgreSQL
Python
Quarto	Separate containers for R and Jupyter
Rocker	Interactive

Additional examples can be made available on request. To do so, please contact the EIDF Helpdesk referencing this page, otherwise send your query by email to eidf@epcc.ed.ac.uk with the subject line "TRE Container Support".

Available on demand	Comments
Freesurfer
Jamovi
MinIO S3
Nextflow
PSPP
Python
Stata

These containers are not fully fledged applications or workflow examples, but provide a template for setting up the technical parts of the containerisation process such as user mapping, and mapping to any required safe_data folders or similar. Please refer to the README in each example for guidance on how to use the container.