Welcome to the Singularity Hub Wiki!Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is Singularity Hub?Singularity Hub is a registry for scientific.What is a Linux Container?A container image is an encapsulated, portable 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.
Listen to Singularity Hub Daily episodes free, on demand. A constant stream of SingularityHub's high-quality articles, read to you via an AI system. Singularity-tutorial.github.io Creating and running software containers with Singularity How to use Singularity! This is an introductory workshop on Singularity. It was originally taught by Dave Godlove at the NIH HPC, but the content has since been adapted to a general audience. For more information about the topics covered here, see the.
Thus, the core of Singularity Hub are these Singularity container images, and by way of being on Singularity Hub they can be easily built, updated, referenced with a url for a publication, and shared. This small guide will help you to get started building your containers using Singularity Hub and your Github repositories.How is Singularity Hub related to Sylabs and Singularity?is the company that maintains the open source code base, along with providing services for paying customers that use Singularity containers. The creator and maintainer of Singularity Hub was one of the original Singularity (open source software) developers, however she is not affiliated with the company Sylabs. Singularity Hub continues to be maintained by this individual at Stanford University, with generous support from Google Cloud.
The two now co-exist peacefully, both passionate about using and supporting users to build Singularity containers. The distinction between Sylabs Library and Singularity Hub (and ) comes down to the intended communities that are served. Singularity Hub and Registry is a non-enterprise solution that is catered for research scientists.Is Singularity Hub open sourceThe source code for Singularity Hub is private, however the author has released an open source (somewhat) equivalent in the case that you want to deploy your own registry,.Getting StartedHow does it work?You can follow some basic steps to build your scientific containers. create an account on Singularity Hub, authentication is with Github. connect a Github repository to a new container collection.
This means creating a webhook that will trigger a new build at each push to the repository. One collection coincides with one repository, and holds multiple images. push the Singularity build recipe (a text file specification to build your image called Singularity) to the repository to trigger the build. Singularity-Hub will be notified of the push via the webhook, and the build recipe file will be version controlled via the Github commit. This repo url, commit id, storage location, and some secrets are then sent to Singularity Hub builders. the container is built on the cloud, and when finished, is accessible programatically from the Singularity command line client, or the.
By default, we only listen for changes to the master branch. To enable other branches, you need to add them in your Collection settings.Singularity Hub is developed at Stanford University with support from Google Cloud. Thank you!NewsSingularity 2.5 is released, and so is Singularity Hub 2.1!
See the for details.We are collecting feedback for a potential update to Singularity Hub.Getting StartedThis is the official user guide for, providing more detail on how to build, manage, and deploy your images.