Multiplatform Docker images for Quarto

[jdutant]

Hi all,

There are quite a few docker images for Quarto around, but I haven't seen any that works on new Macs (Apple Silicon, aka aarch64 or arm64) as well as amd64 (see #3308 (comment)). So here are a couple:

1. Minimal: just quarto-cli.

   💾 docker pull jdutant/quarto-minimal

2. Latex: a basic Tex Live installation (not TinyTeX because Quarto can't install it on arm64)

   💾 docker pull jdutant/quarto-latex

Try them out (this will pull them from docker hub):

docker run --rm --volume $(pwd):/data jdutant/quarto-minimal -v
docker run --rm --volume $(pwd):/data jdutant/quarto-latex -v

See the repository to customize and build them yourself. It also illustrates how to use them as GitHub actions.

jdutant/quarto-dockerfiles

Image stages are completely modular (each does its own apt-get update), so it should be relatively easy to graft the steps that install Quarto and LaTeX onto a multiplatform base image for R or Python.

Currently they run Quarto 1.3.313 on ubuntu (I couldn't use alpine as Quarto needs glibc). But you can build them with another version using --build-arg QUARTO_VERSION=1.3.306. Note that older versions like 1.2.475 don't have a arm64 build, so they would only work on amd64 machines.

Enjoy 🚀

PS I'd like to add instructions on using docker-compose and a volume to persist any LaTeX packages installed on the fly but haven't gone round to do it. If you do that please let me know!

[jimjam-slam]

rocker-r-ver supports aarch64 and has a Quarto install script 🙂 I've only used it through a development container (I'm actually writing a blog post this weekend), but I assume it works fine as a raw Docker image too! Performance on my Apple Silicon Macbook has improved significantly since I switched to a native build.