This is an Ubuntu derived image containing the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) compiled with a broad range of drivers. The build process closely follows that defined in the GDAL TravisCI tests but omits Java support.

Each branch in the git repository corresponds to a supported GDAL version (e.g. 1.11.0) with the master branch following GDAL master. These branch names are reflected in the image tags on the Docker Index (e.g. branch 1.11.0 corresponds to the image homme/gdal:v1.11.0).

The following command will open a bash shell in an Ubuntu based environment with GDAL available:

docker run -t -i homme/gdal:latest /bin/bash

Running the container without any arguments will by default run the GDAL test suite:

docker run homme/gdal:latest

You will most likely want to work with data on the host system from within the docker container, in which case run the container with the -v option. This mounts a host directory inside the container; the following invocation maps the host's /tmp to /data in the container:

docker run -v /tmp:/data -t -i homme/gdal:latest /bin/bash

Note that the with the image tagged latest, GDAL represents the latest code at the time the image was built. If you want to include the most up-to-date commits then build the docker image yourself locally along these lines:

docker build -t gdal:latest git://github.com/geo-data/gdal-docker/