lug 0.2.2

Run Python functions paired with any Docker container. Run locally or in the cloud.

Lug

Lug is an open source package that redirects Python calls to subprocess.run, subprocess.Popen, and os.system into any Docker container. This makes these system-level Python calls behave the same way on different machines, without requiring any changes to the Docker container.

Lug also packages the Python function and Docker container, so you can easily run both in the cloud via Lug if needed. This lets you give more computing power to the functions that need it.

Highlights

• 📦 subprocess.run, subprocess.Popen, and os.system run in your container – for the dependencies you can't install with pip
• 🐍 Use containers as-is, no need to add your Python version
• ☁️ Run on your computer or in the cloud

Why use Lug?

Some software – especially in bioinformatics and machine learning – can't be installed with pip install. Conda works in some cases, but for others a Docker container is the best solution. Lug makes the Docker container easier to work with from Python.

The same software is usually resource intensive. Lug can run on your computer, or it can automatically run the Python function and Docker container in the cloud with Toolchest.

Prerequisites

• macOS or Linux (supporting POSIX_SPAWN)
• Docker Engine and the Docker CLI

Install

Install Docker Engine and the CLI, if you don't have it.

With pip:

pip install lug

With Poetry:

poetry add lug

Get started

Run a Python function locally in a Docker image

Everything but the subprocess.run below runs as-is, with the echo command running in the Docker image:

import lug
import subprocess

@lug.run(image="alpine:3.16.2")
def hello_world():
    result = subprocess.run('echo "Hello, `uname`!"', capture_output=True, text=True, shell=True)
    return result.stdout

print(hello_world())

That's it! After it finishes, you'll see Hello, Linux!.

Docs

Full docs are at lug.dev

Open-source roadmap

• Run a Python function in a local container
• Maintain Python major.version in function and in container
• Serialize and deserialize Python function and Python dependencies
• os.system(), subprocess.run(), and subprocess.Popen() redirect to a user-specified container
• Local files passed to as input go to ./input/ in remote Docker container
• Remote files written to ./output/ in the container are written to local output Path
• Runs locally
• Run in the cloud with Toolchest
• Stream live stdout during remote execution
• pip-based environment propagation (help needed)
• conda-based environment propagation (help needed)
• Run in the cloud with AWS (help needed)
• Run in the cloud with GCP (help needed)

License

Lug is licensed under the Apache License 2.0