Conda-forge only containers?

Roy_Dragseth · August 12, 2024, 9:27am

Is it possible make the containers provided by dockerstacks to be free of any licensing liabilites to Anaconda Inc? Their terms of use seems to be tightening and this might have economic consequences for many organisations: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squeeze_on/

I’m only asking for the technical possibilities here.

manics · August 12, 2024, 10:50am

The Jupyter docker-stacks use Micromamba with the conda-forge channel:

github.com

jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/6f74c72a92f229ced23b73c138cc9580ca89ea22/images/docker-stacks-foundation/Dockerfile#L92-L102


      
          # Download and install Micromamba, and initialize the Conda prefix.
          #   <https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba#micromamba>
          #   Similar projects using Micromamba:
          #     - Micromamba-Docker: <https://github.com/mamba-org/micromamba-docker>
          #     - repo2docker: <https://github.com/jupyterhub/repo2docker>
          # Install Python, Mamba, and jupyter_core
          # Cleanup temporary files and remove Micromamba
          # Correct permissions
          # Do all this in a single RUN command to avoid duplicating all of the
          # files across image layers when the permissions change
          COPY --chown="${NB_UID}:${NB_GID}" initial-condarc "${CONDA_DIR}/.condarc"

github.com

jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/6f74c72a92f229ced23b73c138cc9580ca89ea22/images/docker-stacks-foundation/initial-condarc

# Conda configuration see https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/configuration.html

auto_update_conda: false
show_channel_urls: true
channels:
  - conda-forge

Of course that wont stop someone installing packages from another channel at runtime.

bollwyvl · August 12, 2024, 2:20pm

Yep. One could add a bogus redirect of anaconda.com (not .org) in /etc/hosts, but the anaconda.org/(anaconda|m2) channels would be harder to remove at the networking layer.

Roy_Dragseth · August 13, 2024, 6:26am

Thank you for the clarification.

Roy_Dragseth · August 13, 2024, 6:28am

Thanks for the tip, but we will rather monitor activity than hacking the network config

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