Docker Best Practices for Data Scientists

Thushan Ganegedara
Towards Data Science
9 min readFeb 7, 2020

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Docker … whale … you get it.

As a data scientist, I grapple with Docker on a daily basis. Creating images, spinning up contains have become as common as writing Python scripts for me. And this journey has its achievements as well as moments, “I wish I knew that before”.

This article discusses some of the best practices while using Docker for your data science projects. By no means this is an exhaustive checklist. But…

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