Hi Ben,

> On 22 Jun 2016, at 21:31, McGough, Benjamin E <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have been struggling with creating a clean environment in which to build 
> with EasyBuild and test easyconfigs.
>
>
> Incidentally, I am using LXD currently to generate a clean Ubuntu containers, 
> into which I am bootstrapping EasyBuild with minimal packages. I hope to have 
> the whole thing automated with Jenkins in the next week or two. I have tested 
> CentOS and Opensuse containers as well, so I plan to incorporate those for 
> full testing. I also intend to have our "production" easybuilds run in these 
> containers, with our distribution file system mounted.
>

On this specific point, Robert has done some work on using containers - he 
mentioned it in passing in his presentation at the user meeting.

I think lots of us would be interested if you’re able to share your work here.


Cheers,
Adam

> As always, thank you for EasyBuild!
>
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