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Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux

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106 points cl3misch | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 09:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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mrbluecoat ◴[26 Jun 25 14:31 UTC] No.44387820[source]▶
Great to see Apptainer getting some attention. It generally excels over other container options (like Docker and Podman) in these scenarios:

- Need to run more than one activity in a single container (this is an anti-pattern in other container technologies)

- HPC (and sometimes college) environments

- Want single-file distribution model (although doesn't support deltas)

- Cryptographically sign a SIF file without an external server

- Robust GPU support

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1. colonial ◴[27 Jun 25 04:16 UTC] No.44393660[source]▶
> (this is an anti-pattern in other container technologies)

It is? I have no issues packing my development containers full of concurrent running processes. systemd even supports running as a "container init" out of the box, so you can get something that looks very similar to a full VM.