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CondaTainer and the tools around it CondaTainer, which creates, runs and shares overlays, sits in the middle of a ring of Conda, Apptainer, container registries, HPC schedulers and web apps. Conda Apptainer Scheduler Web Apps Registry create · run · share ·

CondaTainer

A rootless CLI that packages tools, data, and Conda environments into portable images that run seamlessly on HPC.
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Why CondaTainer

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Modular

Conda environments and data as separate images that work together.

Reproducible

Pin exact versions per project and share them through OCI registries.

Scheduler Native

Works with HPC schedulers such as Slurm.

Web-App Ready

Run RStudio, code-server, Jupyter and VNC on compute nodes from a dashboard.

Guide

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InstallationInstall CondaTainer for personal use on Linux.
Quick startCreate software and data as overlays, run them, and run a script as a job.
ConceptUnderstand how CondaTainer uses overlays to build reproducible containers.
Module overlayFind, create, run and manage module overlays of software and data.
Environment overlayKeep a writable overlay, add packages and other software to it, and freeze it.
SchedulerSet resources, pass arguments, run arrays and chain jobs with condatainer run.
HelperRun web apps such as RStudio and VS Code on a compute node and use them in your own browser.
ProjectPin the exact overlays a project's scripts use, restore them on another machine, and publish them.