I am currently running single R Shiny app in a docker container on my company’s internal cloud. I’m using the public version of Shiny Server in my dockerfile and it works fine expect that I can’t pull in the users username for row level security. So I was hoping to use ShinyProxy in place of Shiny Server.
I’m new to this, and not really and IT professional, so it’s somewhat confusing to me. But when I look at the ShinyProxy documentation, it seems to want to create a server application to serve up multiple apps. I just want to serve up 1 app the way my current Shiny Server public app does.
How do I do this?
I was really hoping that I could just change a few lines in my Dockerfile to pull in ShinyProxy instead of Shiny Server pro. Is that possible?
I’ve just been working on this very thing and finally got it working.
First, shinyproxy exists outside of the docker images. It basically provides a menu of images that users can select from and spins up a container of the selected image (this is coming from someone that also is figuring things out on the go).
The images are specified in the specs: section of the application.yml file (see the shinyproxy.io configuration page for further info).