Use our own base images to build allennlp Docker images

[epwalsh]

Base images are built here: /~https://github.com/allenai/docker-images.

I posted a blurb about this in the #engineering channel on Slack:

In an effort to speed up Docker builds across our projects and strongly version base images to avoid the possibility of downstream images breaking due to unanticipated changes in those base images, I’ve made this repo (/~https://github.com/allenai/docker-images) for building useful base images. So far I’ve just added base images for pytorch which we’ll end up using downstream in the AllenNLP ecosystem, but it’s easy to add new ones (instructions in the readme).

[dirkgr]

What's the advantage of running off of our own Docker images, rather than official ones?

[epwalsh]

What's the advantage of running off of our own Docker images, rather than official ones?

Mainly versioning. We control when we update the base images and how we version them (see /~https://github.com/allenai/docker-images#image-versioning), so we don't get blindsided by an unexpected change.