singularity
apptainer
singularity | apptainer | |
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3 | 4 | |
665 | 911 | |
2.3% | 4.4% | |
9.8 | 9.8 | |
7 days ago | 8 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
- is singularity-ce with centos 7 kernel 3.10.el7.x86
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Docker containers usually still reachable even if bound to 127.0.0.1
rkt (and many other container solutions) was introduced after docker was released and became popular... they even mentioned docker's shortcomings as a motivation for the project creation [0]. It had all the same problems as other replacement software: there were plenty of bugs and missing features, documentation was limited, and there are no community to help you (the announcement explicitly mentions "prototype quality release"). None of those would be fatal if it was significantly better than docker, but it was not -- it was basically the same functionality. So almost no one made the switch. It is closed now [1]
And why "rkt"? There were much better alternative container runtimes. For example Sylabs Singularity [2] -- container-as-a-file, instant mounting, etc... I wish more people knew about it.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20141201181834/https://coreos.co...
[1] https://github.com/rkt/rkt#warning-end-of-project-warning
[2] https://github.com/sylabs/singularity#singularityce
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ELI5: Why does the FreeBSD community hate Docker and Kubernetes so much?
Docker (and the current generation of OCI runtimes) is rather shitty at host OS isolation too. It may have started well, but over time more capabilities were added for the convenience of developers and at the cost of maintainers. I would personally love if the ecosystem were to shift to more isolated workloads with better HPC support. Singualrity looks promising but still maintains OCI compatibility.
apptainer
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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
What are some alternatives?
singularity-cri - The Singularity implementation of the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
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.
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.
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
img - Standalone, daemon-less, unprivileged Dockerfile and OCI compatible container image builder.
trash-d - A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin. Written in D
ufw-docker - To fix the Docker and UFW security flaw without disabling iptables
shpc-registry - A remote registry for Singularity Registry HPC 🖊️
rkt
bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned - OUTDATED!!!!! - Replaced by "The Bumblebee Project" and "Ironhide"