readme update and multi-platform image

Author: hamin

.github/workflows/docker.latest.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
         cd software_docker
         APP_VERSION=$(ls -d v*.*.* | sort -V | tail -n 1)
         cd ${APP_VERSION}
-        docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 -t mpgagebioinformatics/bioinformatics_software:latest . --push
+        docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 -t mpgagebioinformatics/bioinformatics_software:latest . --push
 
     - name: Set Success env
       run: echo "GITHUB_SHA_SHORT=$(echo $GITHUB_SHA | cut -c 1-8)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

.github/workflows/docker.tag.yml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
         APP_VERSION=${GITHUB_REF#refs/*/}
         git clone https://github.com/mpg-age-bioinformatics/software_docker.git
         cd software_docker/${APP_VERSION}
-        docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 -t mpgagebioinformatics/bioinformatics_software:${APP_VERSION} -t mpgagebioinformatics/bioinformatics_software:latest . --push
+        docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 -t mpgagebioinformatics/bioinformatics_software:${APP_VERSION} -t mpgagebioinformatics/bioinformatics_software:latest . --push
 
     - name: Set Success env
       run: echo "GITHUB_SHA_SHORT=${GITHUB_REF#refs/*/}" >> $GITHUB_ENV

README.md

@@ -246,11 +246,13 @@ sudo docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -p 8888:8888 \
 
 sudo docker exec -i -t bioinf-container /bin/bash
 ```
-Push your changes to the repo on github.
+Push your changes to the repo on github (it will push a docker image with the latest tag).
 
-Push you docker image with:
+Add the new version tag (e.g. v1.2.3) to push you docker image with the version tag:
 ```bash
-docker push mpgagebioinformatics/bioinformatics_software:<version_tag>
+git tag -e -a <version tag> HEAD
+git push
+git push origin --tags
 ```
 
 Python and perl Modules should be installed by the user with the ```--user``` option.