Docker image

VW is available as a lightweight Alpine Linux docker image for amd64. See here: https://hub.docker.com/r/vowpalwabbit/vw-rel-alpine

Tags are available or each release starting at 8.8.0. Note: there is no latest tag. This image makes it easy to run the command line from anywhere where Docker is available.

For example, you could run the following from the repo root:

docker run -v $(pwd):/workspace --rm vowpalwabbit/vw-rel-alpine:8.10.2 -d /workspace/test/train-sets/0001.dat

• -v $(pwd):/workspace will mount your current working directory under the path /workspace so that you can use it in commands
• --rm will remove the container after the command has run, this prevents old containers taking up space