Questions: container registries

[sunyi000]

I have a quick question:

Where are the container images stored?
From the architecture diagram, it seems that biocontainer uses both quay.io and dockerhub, but how do I know which image is in which registry?

Thanks

[k-dominik]

If I may add to that question a concrete example:

There's dockerfiles for ilastik: https://github.com/BioContainers/containers/tree/master/ilastik
How would I know where to find a container. The search on biocontainers.pro does not really turn up anything useful. Should it?

Also I found the container then on dockerhub, should it also be on quay.io, or are these used exclusively?

[mboudet]

Hello,

So, there are two main sources of docker images:

• This repository, which build the images on https://hub.docker.com/orgs/biocontainers/repositories
• The bioconda channel recipes, where every conda package built has a docker image available on quay.io: Example

So, for ilastik, the image will be here

Sorry, the readme is not very clear, I have been meaning to rewrite it.
Regarding biocontainers, it should return relevant information, but the backend seems to be bugged at the moment.