apptainer

• An open-source program enabling operating system virualization (i.e. containerization)

• Creates a flexible OS environment resulting in portability and reproducibility of softwares

• Specificaly develop at Lawerence Berkeley National Lab to simplify the process of running applications on HPC clusters

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• apptainer build
• apptainer run
• apptainer shell
• apptainer instance start
  • Instances

Apptainer

• containers for softwares

Build

sudo apptainer build ubuntu.sif ubuntu.def
sudo apptainer build --sandbox /tmp/ubuntu docker://ubuntu:22.04

Run

apptainer shell ubuntu.sif
apptainer shell --contain --cleanenv ubuntu.sif 

apptainer run ubuntu.sif pwd

apptainer exec ubuntu.sif apt update