I know the feeling, not just with container space (remember sun/solaris south park meme here please) stuff but in general in computing seeing through branding/promotion Dr. Kay have some quote about all been a pop culture.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Lachlan Musicman <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, rkt was probably my preferred option. The researchers I work with > aren't necessarily up to date with what's best practice wrt to this area, > so docker is what they know best by virtue of branding/promotion. I don't > mind which is used in a solution, if any. But yes, rkt would be my > preference. > > Cheers > L. > > ------ > The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this > way." > > - Grace Hopper > > On 16 November 2016 at 12:29, Jean Chassoul <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just wondering, have you consider rkt? I wonder if you run pip inside >> virtualenv's if that is the case the switch to a container with rkt seems >> "normal" instead of a more intrusive one all mighty process to rule >> everything that docker had the last time I check, its probably better now. >> >> Saludos. >> Jean >> >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Lachlan Musicman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hola, >>> >>> We were looking for the ability to make jobs perfectly reproducible - >>> while the system is set up with environment modules with the increasing >>> number of package management tools - pip/conda; npm; CRAN/Bioconductor - >>> and people building increasingly more complex software stacks, our users >>> have started asking about containerization and slurm. >>> >>> I have found a discussion on this list from about a year ago >>> >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/slurm-devel/oPmz5em5tAA/BYlDDfRDzTgJ >>> >>> which mentioned a tool that's not been updated since and one called >>> Shifter by NERSC, which is Cray specific?. >>> >>> Has anyone tried Shifter out and has there been any movement on this? I >>> presume the licensing issues remain. >>> >>> Cheers >>> L. >>> ------ >>> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this >>> way." >>> >>> - Grace Hopper >>> >> >> >
