Building Software Research Environment using Linux Container and Version Control System

With advancements in software technology, more scientists and engineers are employing computer software and programming tools for research. However, several issues can arise in software-based research: environment setting, reproducibility, and loss of source codes. This study investigates the use of Linux containers and version control systems to prevent these problems. Managing research projects using a cloud source-code repository and building a research environment in a Linux container can prevent the abovementioned problems and make research collaboration easier. For researchers with no experience with Linux containers, a repository of project template containing shell scripts for building and running containers has been released.