What is the difference between devel and runtime tag for a Docker container?

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BLP picture BLP · Jun 1, 2019 · Viewed 9k times · Source

For Pytorch and Tensorflow, there are tags which differentiate devel and runtime, I am not quite sure what are the difference between these two, can someone help me understand that better?

Answer

FantasyJXF picture FantasyJXF · Dec 4, 2019

Copy from nvidia-docker:

CUDA images come in three flavors and are available through the NVIDIA public hub repository.

  • base: starting from CUDA 9.0, contains the bare minimum (libcudart) to deploy a pre-built CUDA application. Use this image if you want to manually select which CUDA packages you want to install.
  • runtime: extends the base image by adding all the shared libraries from the CUDA toolkit. Use this image if you have a pre-built application using multiple CUDA libraries.
  • devel: extends the runtime image by adding the compiler toolchain, the debugging tools, the headers and the static libraries. Use this image to compile a CUDA application from sources.

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