Docker image for ecCodes (CentOS 7.8). Use linuxbrew to avoid glibc dependency hell

ecCodes.Dockerfile

FROM centos:centos7.8.2003

# Install required packages
RUN yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
RUN yum install -y gcc \
    make \
    patch \
    zlib-devel \
    bzip2 \
    bzip2-devel \
    readline-devel \
    sqlite \
    sqlite-devel \
    openssl-devel \
    tk-devel \
    libffi-devel \
    xz-devel \
    expat-devel \
    ncurses-devel \
    gdbm-devel \
    bison \
    cmake \
    gmake \
    wget \
    curl \
    file \
    procps-ng \
    git \
    vim \
    python3 \
    make \
    autoconf \
    unzip

    # Install recent version of curl from source
RUN cd /usr/src && \
    wget --no-check-certificate https://curl.se/download/curl-8.7.1.tar.gz && \
    tar xzf curl-8.7.1.tar.gz && \
    cd curl-8.7.1 && \
    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-openssl && \
    make -j 8 && \
    make install && \
    /usr/local/bin/curl --version && \
    make clean


# Install recent version of Git from source
# CentOS7 needs to add flag -std=gnu99 to CFLAGS
# https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/merge_requests/5948/diffs#diff-content-054ca14425c992bdc139dfcd41557e9509b6a51d
RUN yum remove -y git && \
    cd /usr/src && \
    wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.45.1.tar.gz && \
    tar xzf git-2.45.1.tar.gz && \
    cd git-2.45.1 && \
    make configure && \
    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-std=gnu99" && \
    make all -j 8 && \
    make install && \
    git --version && \
    make clean

# Install GNU Make (gmake) from source
# RUN cd /usr/src && \
#     wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.3.tar.gz && \
#     tar xzf make-4.3.tar.gz && \
#     cd make-4.3 && \
#     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && \
#     make -j4 && \
#     make install && \
#     /usr/local/bin/make --version

# # Install custom glibc
# RUN cd /usr/src && \
#     wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/glibc-2.35.tar.gz && \
#     tar xzf glibc-2.35.tar.gz && \
#     cd glibc-2.35 && \
#     mkdir build && cd build && \
#     PATH="/usr/local/bin/:$PATH" ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/glibc-2.35 && \
#     /usr/local/bin/make -j 8 && \
#     /usr/local/bin/make install

# I can't install linuxbrew as root, so I need to create a new user
RUN useradd -m -s /bin/bash linuxbrew && \
    echo 'linuxbrew ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >>/etc/sudoers

# Install Linuxbrew
USER linuxbrew

# Set environment variables for Homebrew to use custom glibc
# ENV HOMEBREW_LIBRARY_PATHS="/usr/local/glibc-2.35/lib"
# ENV HOMEBREW_INCLUDE_PATHS="/usr/local/glibc-2.35/include"
# ENV LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/glibc-2.35/lib -L/usr/local/glibc-2.35/lib"
# ENV CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/glibc-2.35/include"
# ENV PATH="/usr/local/glibc-2.35/bin:$PATH:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin"

RUN sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)" && \
    echo 'eval $(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)' >> ~/.bash_profile && \
    echo 'eval $(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)' >> ~/.bashrc && \
    source ~/.bash_profile

ENV PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin:${PATH}"
ENV SHELL="/bin/bash"

RUN test -d ~/.linuxbrew && eval "$(~/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)" && \
    test -d /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew && eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)" && \
    echo "eval \"\$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)\"" >> ~/.bashrc && \
    echo "eval \"\$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)\"" >> ~/.bash_profile && \
    source ~/.bash_profile

# Install required packages from Linuxbrew
# Fix gcc@13 to install Python 3.12
# RUN brew install cmake gnu-which vim \
#     openssl readline sqlit`e3 xz lzip ncurses xml-coreutils tcl-tk zlib [email protected] 
RUN brew install openssl readline sqlite3 xz lzip ncurses xml-coreutils tcl-tk zlib [email protected]
RUN brew install netcdf libaec jpeg png++ eccodes

# Set up the environment
ENV ECCODES_DIR=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/eccodes/2.35.0/
RUN echo 'export ECCODES_DIR=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/eccodes/2.35.0' >> ~/.bashrc && \
    echo 'export ECCODES_DIR=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/eccodes/2.35.0' >> ~/.bash_profile

WORKDIR /home/linuxbrew/
RUN mkdir env && \
    cd env && \
    python3 -m venv . && \
    source ./bin/activate && \
    pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel && \
    pip install numpy scipy matplotlib pandas netCDF4 cfgrib xarray joblib eccodes-python

# Test the environment
# https://github.com/ecmwf/cfgrib
WORKDIR /home/linuxbrew/env
RUN wget https://get.ecmwf.int/repository/test-data/cfgrib/era5-levels-members.grib && \
    source ./bin/activate && \
    python -c "import xarray as xr; ds = xr.open_dataset('era5-levels-members.grib', engine='cfgrib'); ds"

RUN brew cleanup

# Set the working directory
USER root
RUN mkdir /workspace
WORKDIR /workspace

RUN yum clean all && \
    rm -rf /var/cache/yum


# Command to keep the container running
CMD ["/bin/bash"]