I found Docker super useful, but going through a manual is quite time consuming. Here, very stripped manual to create your first image and push it online 🙂

# install docker
wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh
 
# add your user to docker group
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
 
# check if it's working
docker run docker/whalesay cowsay "hello world!"
 
# create an account on https://hub.docker.com
# and login
docker login -u $USER --email=EMAIL
 
# run image
docker run -it ubuntu
 
# make some changes ie. create user, install needed software etc
 
# finally open new terminal & commit changes (SESSIONID=HOSTNAME)
docker commit SESSIONID $USER/image:version
 
# mount local directory `pwd`/test as /test in read/write mode
docker run -it -v `pwd`/test:/test:rw $USER/image:version some command with arguments
 
# push image
docker push $USER/image:version

From now, you can get your image from any other machine connected to Internet by executing:

docker run -it $USER/image:version
# ie. redundans image
docker run -it -w /root/src/redundans lpryszcz/redundans:v0.11b ./redundans.py -v -i test/{600,5000}_{1,2}.fq.gz -f test/contigs.fa -o test/run1
 
# you can create alias latest, then version can be skipped on running
docker tag lpryszcz/redundans:v0.11b lpryszcz/redundans:latest
docker push lpryszcz/redundans:latest
 
docker run -it lpryszcz/redundans

You can add info about your repository at https://hub.docker.com/r/$USER/image/