Software Containers with Apptainer

Learn how to build and run portable software containers for research computing tasks using Apptainer.

Slides: https://uschpc.github.io/workshop-apptainer/

Example definition files: examples/deffiles

Example Slurm job scripts: examples/slurm

Prerequisites

• Basic proficiency in running shell commands
• Basic proficiency in running Slurm jobs

Learning objectives

• Explain the motivation for software containers
• Describe use cases for containers
• Pull, build, and run containers
• Convert a Docker image to an Apptainer image
• Use Apptainer on CARC HPC clusters