You can put Shiny Server Pro in a Docker container, but licensing must be handled explicitly. For this configuration, we recommend using a floating license server on hardware or a static VM, on the...
I used shinyapps.io for my own shiny app. It’s a great service. You can deploy your app for free, test it and show it to other people. But there’s also a downside: The memory an app can use is limited. So I was looking for another way to deploy my app. So I took a look at Docker.
Docking or containerization is a new method of distribute a software/tool. Beside providing only the source code for installing, we give the users the so-called container, which contains the whole environment to run the program, including the tool and its dependencies with the exact version and all the needed configurations. By delivering such a “container”, users are always able to “reuse” the tool and reproduce the results as we did.
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This blogpost explains step by step how you can build your own Docker Image and include R scripts. With this you can have scripts running at every image's beginning.
Learn how to dockerize ShinyApps! Join our colleague Oliver on his journey toward deploying his work done in R with the help of neat Docker containers.