Coding Café - Build Once, Run Anywhere: Making Your Research Reproducible with Docker

This presentation was delivered during the Coding Café on 2 July 2025 at the Department of the Built Environment, TU Eindhoven. It introduces the concepts of reproducibility in scientific computing and how Docker containers can help address challenges related to software installation, versioning, and environment consistency.

The presentation covers:

• Software dependency issues and “dependency hell”

• What containers and container images are

• Docker’s role in research reproducibility

• Practical examples of Dockerfiles, volumes, and networking

• Step-by-step commands to run and manage containers

This session was designed to be accessible to researchers with basic command-line experience and aims to promote the use of containerization for reproducible and shareable research workflows.