Welcome to the Kiosc documentation!¶
Kiosc is a web application to control Docker containers that run a webserver.
It was conceived to facilitate presenting analysis results interactively (but is not limited to that) by running Docker images that are constricting any application that offers a web interface. Any image can be loaded, and Kiosc manages the access to the web interface of the application.
What Kiosc is and what it is not¶
Kiosc is a web interface for
loading Docker images and creating containers from it,
controlling the state of Docker containers,
controlling access to containers based on the user management provided by SODAR,
providing access to the app running in a container.
Kiosc is NOT
a tool to create Docker images,
for running Docker images without webserver (you can do that, but you won’t benefit from it),
for directly loading or sharing data (this has to be managed by the Docker image).
Note
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