RStudio Connect

Docker images for RStudio Professional Products

IMPORTANT: There are a few things you need to know before using these images:

1. These images are provided as a convenience to RStudio customers and are not formally supported by RStudio. If you have questions about these images, you can ask them in the issues in the repository or to your support representative, who will route them appropriately.
2. Outdated images will be removed periodically from DockerHub as product version updates are made. Please make plans to update at times or use your own build of the images.
3. These images are meant as a starting point for your needs. Consider creating a fork of this repo, where you can continue to merge in changes we make while having your own security scanning, base OS in use, or other custom changes. We provide instructions for building for these cases.

Simple Example

To verify basic functionality as a first step:

# Replace with valid license
export RSC_LICENSE=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

# Run without persistent data and using default configuration
docker run -it --privileged \
    -p 3939:3939 \
    -e RSC_LICENSE=$RSC_LICENSE \
    rstudio/rstudio-connect:latest

Open http://localhost:3939 to access RStudio Connect.

For a more "real" deployment, continue reading!

Overview

This Docker container is built following the RStudio Connect admin guide, please see Server Guide/Docker for more details on the requirements and how to extend this image.

This container includes:

1. R 3.6.1
2. Python 3.6.5
3. RStudio Connect

Note that running the RStudio Connect Docker image requires the container to run using the --privileged flag and a valid RStudio Connect license.

IMPORTANT: to use RStudio Connect with more than one user, you will need to define Server.Address in the rstudio-connect.gcfg file. To do so, update your configuration file with the URL that users will use to visit Connect. Then start or restart the container.

Configuration

The configuration of RStudio Connect is made on the /etc/rstudio-connect/rstudio-connect.gcfg file, mount this file as volume with an external file on the host machine to change the configuration and restart the container for changes to take effect.

Be sure the config file has these fields:

• Server.Address set to the exact URL that users will use to visit Connect. A placeholder http://localhost:3939 is in use by default
• Server.DataDir set to /data/
• HTTP.Listen (or equivalent HTTP, HTTPS, or HTTPRedirect settings. This could change how you should configure the container ports)
• Python.Enabled and Python.Executable

See a complete example of that file at connect/rstudio-connect.gcfg.

Persistent Data

In order to persist RSC metadata and app data between container restarts configure RSC Server.DataDir option to go to a persistent volume.

The included configuration file expects a persistent volume from the host machine or your docker orchestration system to be available at /data. Should you wish to move this to a different path, you can change the Server.DataDir option.

Licensing

Using the RStudio Connect docker image requires to have a valid License. You can set the RSC license in three ways:

1. Setting the RSC_LICENSE environment variable to a valid license key inside the container
2. Setting the RSC_LICENSE_SERVER environment variable to a valid license server / port inside the container
3. Mounting a /etc/rstudio-connect/license.lic single file that contains a valid license for RStudio Connect

NOTE: the "offline activation process" is not supported by this image today. Offline installations will need to explore using a license server, license file, or custom image with manual intervention.

Environment variables

Variable	Description	Default
RSC_LICENSE	License key for RStudio Connect, format should be: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX	None
RSC_LICENSE_SERVER	Floating license server, format should be: my.url.com:port	None

Ports

Variable	Description
3939	Default HTTP Port for RStudio Connect

Example usage

# Replace with valid license
export RSC_LICENSE=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

# Run without persistent data and using an external configuration
docker run -it --privileged \
    -p 3939:3939 \
    -v $PWD/connect/rstudio-connect.gcfg:/etc/rstudio-connect/rstudio-connect.gcfg \
    -e RSC_LICENSE=$RSC_LICENSE \
    rstudio/rstudio-connect:latest

# Run with persistent data and using an external configuration
docker run -it --privileged \
    -p 3939:3939 \
    -v $PWD/data/rsc:/data \
    -v $PWD/connect/rstudio-connect.gcfg:/etc/rstudio-connect/rstudio-connect.gcfg \
    -e RSC_LICENSE=$RSC_LICENSE \
    rstudio/rstudio-connect:latest

Open http://localhost:3939 to access RStudio Connect.

Licensing

The license associated with the RStudio Docker Products repository is located in LICENSE.md.

As is the case with all container images, the images themselves also contain other software which may be under other licenses (i.e. bash, linux, system libraries, etc., along with any other direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).

It is an image user's responsibility to ensure that use of this image (and any of its dependent layers) complies with all relevant licenses for the software contained in the image.