This project has multiple versions of EnergyPlus ready for use in a single container.
Below is a table of the various docker tags and their meanings as seen on this page.
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| x.y.z | Build of official EnergyPlus release (recommended use) |
| latest | Latest official release of EnergyPlus (e.g. 22.2.0) |
| develop | Release of develop branch |
To build the EnergyPlus docker image locally, see the following example command for v22.2.0 using Ubuntu 22.04 as the base image.
docker build -t energyplus --build-arg ENERGYPLUS_VERSION=22.2.0 --build-arg ENERGYPLUS_SHA=c249759bad --build-arg ENERGYPLUS_INSTALL_VERSION=22-2-0 --build-arg ENERGYPLUS_TAG=v22.2.0 --build-arg UBUNTU_BASE=22.04 .
To run EnergyPlus you should either mount your directory into the container or create a dependent container where you call ADD . /var/simdata/energyplus.
To mount the local folder and run EnergyPlus (on Linux only) make sure that your simulation directory is the current directory and run:
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/var/simdata/energyplus nrel/energyplus /bin/bash -c "cp /usr/local/bin/Energy+.idd /var/simdata/energyplus; cd /var/simdata/energyplus && EnergyPlus"