Rendering a test frame from within a container
To quickly render a single test frame using the Cycles ray tracer you can run the following command
docker run nytimes/blender:latest blender -b -o /tmp/ -E CYCLES -f 1
In this example:
-b means run Blender in background mode (i.e headless with no GUI)-o refers to the folder in which you want to save the renders-E selects the engine used for rendering (Cycles support both GPU and CPU rendering)-f sets the amount of frames to render
For a full reference of CLI arguments available see the Blender CLI documentation page
Using the images in your own Dockerfile
It should look like something like
FROM nytimes/blender:latest
...rest of your own Dockerfile
For all tags available see Docker tags or visit the Docker Hub repository