apptainer
Apptainer: Application containers for Linux (by apptainer)
singularity
Singularity has been renamed to Apptainer as part of us moving the project to the Linux Foundation. This repo has been persisted as a snapshot right before the changes. (by apptainer)
apptainer | singularity | |
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4 | 6 | |
945 | 2,495 | |
7.8% | 0.6% | |
9.8 | 0.0 | |
4 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
Go | Go | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
apptainer
Posts with mentions or reviews of apptainer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.
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Apptainer (Formerly Singularity)
Singularity is a container platform often used in HPC (high performance computing) because it doesn't require root.
From the git repo: https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer
> Apptainer was formerly known as Singularity and is now a part of the Linux Foundation.
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is singularity-ce with centos 7 kernel 3.10.el7.x86
They certainly have an EL7 rpm.
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Apptainer
Do the .deb releases here not work for you? https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases
- Just a warning about typos
singularity
Posts with mentions or reviews of singularity.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-13.
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Just a warning about typos
Old Singularity repo: https://github.com/apptainer/singularity
- Singularity – Open Source Container System for Secure High Performance Computing
- Singularity – Open-Source Container System for Secure High Performance Computing
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Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
This sounds exactly like Singularity http://singularity.hpcng.org/
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What is a singularity container and how do I use it?
never used it but a very popular example of a container is docker (that link says what a container is) and singularity just looks like another container flavour (maybe specific to HPCs?)
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Youki, a container runtime in Rust, passed all the default tests provided by opencontainers.
The re-exec pattern is not the only way you can solve this in Go. I actually rebuilt a container runtime from C to Go (for the HPC market) and we had to solve this problem. We did it by essentially forking before any Go code gets run. Here’s the code for the main binary that actually spawns the container process. It’s half C, half Go. https://github.com/hpcng/singularity/tree/master/cmd/starter
What are some alternatives?
When comparing apptainer and singularity you can also consider the following projects:
podman-desktop-companion - Podman desktop companion
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.