Merge two docker images

Question

I\'m hoping to use docker to set up some bioinformatic analysis.

I have found two docker images that I would like to use:

1. jupyter/datascience-notebook<

Answer 1

If there are specific files or directories that you want to cherry-pick from the one of the two images, you can create a new Dockerfile that builds FROM one of them and copy over specific paths from the other using COPY's --from option. For example:

FROM bioconductor/devel_base
COPY --from=jupyter/datascience-notebook /path/to/something-you-want /path

However, a quick investigation of those images shows that in this specific case there isn't a lot that can easily be cherry picked.

Alternatively, you can just look at the original Dockerfiles and combine them yourself:

• https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/master/base-notebook/Dockerfile
• https://github.com/Bioconductor/bioc_docker/blob/master/out/devel_base/Dockerfile

Fortunately they are both based one APT-based distros: Ubuntu and Debian. So most of the apt-get install commands should work fine if you pick either base image.