Additional topics and next steps

Overview

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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.

Next steps with containers

Now that we’re at the end of the lesson material, take a moment to reflect on what you’ve learned, how it applies to you, and what to do next.

1. In your own notes, write down or diagram your understanding of Singularity containers and container images: concepts, commands, and how they work.
2. In your own notes, write down how you think you might use containers in your daily work. If there’s something you want to try doing with containers right away, what is a next step after this workshop to make that happen?

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