Container Tools

Welcome to the container tools portal!

• See the tools here.
• Follow @containertools on Twitter.
• If you need help, post an issue

What is a Linux Container?

A container image is an encapsulated, portalable environment that is created to distribute a scientific analysis or a general function. Containers help with reproducibility of such content as they nicely package software and data dependencies, along with libraries that are needed.

What are the goals of Container Tools?

These are open source tools for scientific containers. The tools are designed with the primary goal to serve the scientific community. Since Singularity is a container technology that is friendly for shared computational resources common in the scientific community, the majority of our tools use it.

Quick Links

• To see the currently maintained container tools, see the singularityhub portal.
• To see current documentation for Singularity Hub, see singularityhub-docs

Thanks

The Container Tools and Singularity Hub is developed at Stanford University with support from Google Cloud. Thank you!

Citations

• Singularity Hub.
• Singularity Registry
• The Scientific Filesystem
• The Experiment Factory

Please tell us about requests for features, or any questions that you might have.

Get Help

• Joining Singularity Slack is the quickest way to talk to the developers and other users.
• Post an issue to this board for a question or issue about Singularity hub.