[Optional] Additional topics and next steps

Overview

Teaching: 60 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• How do I understand more on how containers work?

• What different container technologies are there and what are differences/implications?

• How can I orchestrate different containers?

Objectives

• Understand container technologies better.

• Provide useful links to continue your journey with containers.

Additional topics

• How do containers work
  • Containers vs Virtual Machines
  • Layers
• Container technologies
  • Docker
  • Podman
  • Container Engine State of the Art (FOSDEM’21)
• Container good practice
  • How should containers be used and present themselves?
  • Best practice for bioinformatic containers
• Container orchestration - typically using Docker containers rather than Singularity
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker Compose
  • Docker Swarm

Useful links

• Docker Introductory course (Carpentries Incubator)
• Singularity CE documentation
• Apptainer documentation

Key Points

• TBC