An official Docker image to run quarto

[gdurif]

Hi,

I use quarto to build a static website that I host through gitlab pages (and automatically build through gitlab CI).

To do so, gitlab relies on Docker images from Docker Hub, so I had to find an image running smoothly quarto. I am currently configuring a Docker image so quarto runs smoothly within it (including rendering for any Python/R/Julia code chunk).

Having an official quarto images would be great (or multiple ones, e.g. quarto-R, quarto-python, quarto-julia, quarto-all, etc.).

Thanks in advance,
Best

[mcanouil]

There is the rocker project: https://rocker-project.org/
Also @rgaiacs did some work on the subject: https://gitlab.com/quarto-forge/docker.

[gdurif]

Hi, thanks for the suggestions.

The rocker project is great but R centered. I tried to use the rocker/rstudio image which contains quarto but it did not work when having both R and python code chunks within my markdown files.

Regarding the second link, the image registry.gitlab.com/quarto-forge/docker/polyglot is just what I need. I did not know that it was possible to use docker images not hosted on Docker hub, it is great!

[mcanouil]

Not everything is installed in the Rocker images, but the scripts are embedded in it and for some, they can be executed at run time using Docker options/parameters.

To note, GitHub has also its own Docker registry.

[rgaiacs]

@gdurif I'm glad that registry.gitlab.com/quarto-forge/docker/polyglot is what you were looking for. The Docker image is a little bigger at the moment because it include some tools to convert Quarto to PDF. I'm planning to refactor things a little in January/2023 to have a smaller image limited to HTML and a bigger one for PDF.

[eitsupi]

In general, installation of quarto-cli is easy, so you can simply install quarto-cli on any Docker image.

[mcanouil]

Closing as there is now Quarto docker images built within the repository in addition to many more elsewhere, see https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/pkgs/container/quarto.

[jcrben]

@mcanouil the unfortunate thing about the images is that they don't contain knitr and rmarkdown - I'm trying to do the VSCode Quarto Preview on Universal Blue Aurora and haven't had success so far - had to install brew install gcc-11, then ultimately hit this after doing a bunch of compilation:

** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (knitr)
ERROR: dependency ‘sass’ is not available for package ‘bslib’
* removing ‘/var/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/R/4.4/site-library/bslib’
ERROR: dependency ‘bslib’ is not available for package ‘rmarkdown’
* removing ‘/var/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/R/4.4/site-library/rmarkdown’

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpJHkvgn/downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages(c("rmarkdown", "knitr")) :
  installation of package ‘fs’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages(c("rmarkdown", "knitr")) :
  installation of package ‘sass’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages(c("rmarkdown", "knitr")) :
  installation of package ‘bslib’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages(c("rmarkdown", "knitr")) :
  installation of package ‘rmarkdown’ had non-zero exit status
> 

I installed RStudio in a "BoxBuddy" which works OK to see what Quarto can do, but ultimately I'm looking to use VSCode.

I'll admit this Universal Blue thing is probably more complex than most, I'm still figuring it out.

[jcrben]

@mcanouil where is the documentation on how to set up the environment for the VSCode extension to work? https://quarto.org/docs/tools/vscode.html contains docs on how to use it and https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=quarto.quarto has a short installation section saying to simply install it, but that didn't work for me

cc: @jjallaire

[mcanouil]

Your issue is unrelated to the VSCode extension.
It's your Docker image.
quarto needs to be available in the PATH for the extension to detect it. That's written in the screenshot you shared.
You are the one installing Quarto.
(When you set the path to Quarto in VSCode an extension or window reload might be needed)

Also, please refrain to ping people, especially J.J.

[jcrben]

@mcanouil quarto is available in the PATH, otherwise the preview wouldn't be working in VSCode, which as it does. Thanks for the note on the quarto-cli version, which I fixed, altho unsurprisingly it didn't affect the Visual Edit issue noted above

I pinged JJ because I noticed that he personally handled most of the issues reported over at https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed before the repo was moved to https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto/tree/main/apps/vscode

Why is it a bad idea to ping people? It looks like you don't work for Posit so I'm guessing you don't speak to their policies.

[mcanouil]

I can't reproduce your issue using Docker images and VSCode (desktop or web).
So the issue is somewhere in your setup. Like something not up to date, etc.

When you ping people, it triggers prominent notifications. (Like pinging me in almost all your post for an unknown reason)
J.J. no longer work on this project. It's not because you find a commit by someone that you should ping that person.
Do note that your other assumption is wrong.

[mcanouil]

Try using this: https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto-codespaces/pkgs/container/quarto-codespaces

Connect to it using the vscode user not root.