Running RStudio Shiny as a Docker container on AWS?

Question

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

I saw a document defining how to create RStudio for another cloud provider:

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 precisely, if there are any documents explaining how to have a running RStudio Shiny server instance on AWS inside an authenticated Docker container so that it can at least read files from an AWS account and use them for interactive visualization of Shiny. In addition, you can also record the results in EC2.

Any pointers or major technical difficulties that people expect?

Answer 1

Yes. 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/