Dockerfiles for heavy software (Houdini, ...) run via distrobox, built once and pushed to a private registry instead of rebuilding on every distrobox create.

Convention

One self-contained folder per app:

<soft>/
  Dockerfile   # often multi-stage: shared base + amd / nvidia variant
  <soft>-run   # launcher installed in the image (app entrypoint)
  README.md    # specifics: prerequisites, build + push, distrobox create, gotchas

No shared base image across different apps — each has its own system dependencies, sharing more than the folder structure doesn't buy anything.

Two GPU variants per app when OpenGL/Vulkan rendering matters (viewport, preview):

<soft>-amd — Mesa baked into the image (radeonsi / RADV), also works for Intel.
<soft>-nvidia — nothing baked in; the host's NVIDIA driver is mounted at runtime by distrobox --nvidia.

If GPU rendering doesn't matter for a given app, one image is enough — don't duplicate on principle.

Private registry

The apps a meant to be pushed to the private registry: docker.slambin.fr. And then run using distrobox or podman.

podman run -d --name registry --restart=always \
  -p 5000:5000 -v registry-data:/var/lib/registry \
  registry:2

Apps

houdini/ — Houdini Apprentice
davinci/ — DaVinci Resolve