📑 Feature Request: Migrate from Dockerfile to YAML in the configuration of models

[miquelduranfrigola]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Having model configuration as Dockerfile in the model repositories (see template) is confusing, since many times docker is not used for installation. I have realized that many contributors are confused by this fact and, therefore, we need to find a more intuitive solution.

Describe the solution you'd like.

Possibly, having a config.yml file would be the ideal solution. This should not cause a lot of friction since, at fetch time, we can incorporate the commands of this file into a Dockerfile internally, and proceed as usual.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context.

No response

[russelljeffrey]

Hi @miquelduranfrigola,
Based on what I understood, I think somebody has already resolved this type of issue in here. The answer takes you to a github repo that can convert docker file to YAML file in bash(shell). You can find the github repo here. Let me know if it works.

[GemmaTuron]

This issue is linked to that one: #749 and that one: #746
I'll keep the discussion just here for simplicity and close the other issues - this feature incorporation has been deprioritized and will be worked out in the next Ersilia big release

[DhanshreeA]

Marking this issue as duplicate and closing it since we are more proactively addressing this in #1159