RCS-knowledge-base/singularity/20200710.Singularity-def-basics.md

Basics of Singularity Def File

[20200710]

Definitive guide (the doc):

https://sylabs.io/guides/3.5/user-guide/definition_files.html

"Bootstrap" keyword

Defines how we get the starting image

• library: on Sylab Cloud container library
• docker: Docker Hub See: https://sylabs.io/guides/3.5/user-guide/appendix.html#build-docker-module

See: https://sylabs.io/guides/3.5/user-guide/definition_files.html#preferred-bootstrap-agents

https://cloud.sylabs.io/library