Big data inside Docker image?

[Andreu Paytuvi]

Dear all,

My app uses BLAST databases that takes 35Gb of disk. Should I add these databases inside the Docker image, or can I configure BaseSpace to call the app using volumes? How would I do that?

Thanks in advance.

[Al Maynard]

I'd recommend not including in the docker image. Instead I'd consider downloading the files to /data/scratch from your S3 bucket on app startup. If the bucket is in the same region as basespace the transfer should be very fast.