Container Tools

Welcome to the container tools portal!

• See the tools here.
• Follow @containertools on Twitter.
• If you need help, post an issue

What is a Linux Container?

A container image is an encapsulated, portalable environment that is created to distribute a scientific analysis or a general function. Containers help with reproducibility of such content as they nicely package software and data dependencies, along with libraries that are needed.

What are the goals of Container Tools?

These are open source tools for scientific containers. The tools are designed with the primary goal to serve the scientific community. Since Singularity is a container technology that is friendly for shared computational resources common in the scientific community, the majority of our tools use it.

Quick Links

Container Management

• Tunel Interface for interactive container management.
  • Recipe converters from Dockerfile to Singularity and back
  • Local building, pulling
  • Globus integration
• Global Client for command line container management.
  • Clients include Google Compute, Drive, Storage, Dropbox, Globus, Singularity Hub, and Singularity Registry
  • under development integration of cloud builders.
• Singularity Registry server for institutions to deploy their own Singularity Container Registry.
  • under development security scanning with Clair.
  • under development integration with Globus
  • under development integration of cloud builders.

Building

• singularity-hub.org build service for Singularity containers from Github
  • Documentation
  • Terms of Service
• The Scientific Filesystem organizational format that supports exposure of executables and metadata for discoverability of applications in scientific containers.
• The Builders Deploy your own builders on Google Cloud
  • builders (developers) develop a custom builder for the library

Domain Specific

• The Experiment Factory Reproducible container-based experiments.

Container Technology

• singularity software The core Singularity software maintained by sylabs

The Container Tools and Singularity Hub is developed at Stanford University with support from Google Cloud. Thank you!

Citations

• Singularity Hub.
• Singularity Registry
• The Scientific Filesystem
• The Experiment Factory

Please tell us about requests for features, or any questions that you might have.

Get Help

• Joining Singularity Slack is the quickest way to talk to the developers and other users.
• Post an issue to this board for a question or issue about Singularity hub. If it pertains to a specific library image, please find the image, click on the Github link, and post to it's board.