Is there a “multi-user” Docker mode, e.g. for scientific clusters?

Question

I want to use Docker for isolating scientific applications for the use in a HPC Unix cluster. Scientific software often has exotic dependencies so isolating them with Docker app

Answer 1

There is an officially supported Docker image that allows one to run Docker in Docker (dind), available here: https://hub.docker.com/_/docker/. This way, each user can have their own Docker daemon. First, start the daemon instance:

docker run --privileged --name some-docker -d docker:stable-dins

Note that the --privileged flag is required. Next, connect to that instance from a second container:

docker run --rm --link some-docker:docker docker:edge version