singularity VS apptainer

Compare singularity vs apptainer and see what are their differences.

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)
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singularity apptainer
6 4
2,495 904
0.6% 7.9%
0.0 9.8
over 1 year ago 6 days ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing singularity and apptainer you can also consider the following projects:

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

podman-desktop-companion - Podman desktop companion

warewulf - Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container operating system provisioning system for large clusters of bare metal and/or virtual systems.

singularity - SingularityCE is the Community Edition of Singularity, an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure.

gitlab-runner

kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes

trash-d - A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin. Written in D

cockpit-podman - Cockpit UI for podman containers

shpc-registry - A remote registry for Singularity Registry HPC 🖊️

runtime - Kata Containers version 1.x runtime (for version 2.x see https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers).

bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned - OUTDATED!!!!! - Replaced by "The Bumblebee Project" and "Ironhide"