Import pandas on docker with tensorflow

Question

I am using Windows and learning to use tensorflow, so I need to run it under Docker (Toolbox).

Following the usual instruction:

$ docker run -it gcr.io/tensorflow/tensorflow

I can launch a Jupyter notebook on my browser at 192.168.99.100:8888 and run the tutorial notebooks without problems.

Now when I try to import pandas as pd , which is installed in my computer with pip, on Juypter it just said ImportError: No module named pandas

Any idea how I can get this library to work inside the tensorflow images launched from docker?

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Answer 1

The Docker image should be built on a linux operating system. You should launch a shell inside the Docker image grc.io/tensorflow/tensorflow to install the requisite python dependencies.

See Docker quickstart for using

docker run -it grc.io/tensorflow/tensorflow /bin/bash

and then

sudo apt-get install python-pandas

according to pandas docs.

To avoid doing this every time you launch the image, you need to commit the change to create a new image.

To commit the change, you need to get the container id (after run and installation steps above):

sudo docker ps –a # Get list of all containers previously started with run command

Then, commit your changes git style using the container_id displayed in the container list you just got and giving it an image_name of your choosing:

sudo docker commit container_id image_name 

The new image will now show up in the list displayed by sudo docker ps –a.

If you get a free docker account you can push and pull your updated image to your docker repo, or just keep it locally.

See docs under 'Updating and Committing your image'.

Answer 2

For windows users:

docker run -d -p 8888:8888 -v /c/Users/YOUR_WIN_FOLDER:/home/ds/notebooks gcr.io/tensorflow/tensorflow

Then use the following command to see the name of your container for easy execution commands later on (the last column will be the name):

docker ps

Then run:

docker exec <NAME OF CONTAINER> apt-get update

And finally to install pandas:

docker exec <NAME OF CONTAINER> apt-get install -y python-pandas 

(the -y is an automatic 'yes' to stop a prompt from appearing for you to agree to the installation taking up additional disk space)

Answer 3

Here is an image with the pandas installed - https://hub.docker.com/r/zavolokas/tensorflow-udacity/ Or pull it docker pull zavolokas/tensorflow-udacity:pandas