Running RStudio Shiny as a Docker container on AWS?

Question

Has anybody looked into the possibility of running an instance of a RStudio Shiny server as a Docker container on the Amazon AWS cloud?

I have seen a document specifying how to instantiate RStudio on a different cloud provider here:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/running-rstudio-via-docker-in-the-cloud http://www.magesblog.com/2014/09/running-rstudio-via-docker-in-cloud.html

What I would like to know, more specifically, is if there are any documents explaining how to have a running instance of an RStudio Shiny server on AWS inside a Docker container, authenticated so that it can at least read files from a AWS account and use them for interactive Shiny visualizations. Beyond that also be able to write results back to EC2.

Any pointers or major technical difficulties that people anticipate?

Answer 1

Yeah . See http://www.r-bloggers.com/running-rstudio-via-docker-in-the-cloud/

Using this docker image (rocker/rstudio) https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/rocker/rstudio/