On 07/09/2017 01:58 PM, Tru Huynh wrote:
On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 10:13:03PM +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
On Jul 9, 2017, at 18:32 , Bruce Ferrell wrote:
On 07/09/2017 05:51 AM, Tru Huynh wrote:
On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 12:03:02AM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal.
Has anyone have a method to upgrade glibc beyond 2.12?
I would suggest trying singularity (http://singularity.lbl.gov)
and put your application of choice in a single container
(http://singularity.lbl.gov/quickstart).
Thanks Tru, but looking at this, I'm basically spinning up a Centos/RHEL/SciLin7
"container".
Singularity is not limited to those OSs. When it comes to using recent versions
of system libraries, others may be a better choice.
If I'm going that route, spinning up a VM is a WHOLE lot faster...
Er, no... creating an image is faster than installing a VM, starting
it is orders of magnitude faster, and on top you dont' have to
configure and maintain a full system. In particular, you don't have to
run systemd even if you choose EL7 or Ubuntu 16.04 as the container
runtime.
Furthermore, you don't need to do anything to share $HOME between the
singularity container and your host $HOME, nor need to create accounts +
ssh/scp back and forth, of course YMMV.
And if I have to go VM to do this, I may as well do a "from scratch" (Gentoo FS
etc) in the VM.
I have yet to see a good use case for containers... Unless you need a lot of
them. Most people don't.
Well yours is a very good use case for a Singularity container. Give
it a serious try, and I'm pretty sure you won't look back to any
solution you have in mind now.
if you can build a VM from scratch, you can do it with a singularity or a
docker recipe (or use both).
I just made a quick and dirty calibre3 on a singularity container and
shared it on https://singularity-hub.org.
- install singularity 2.3.1
- singularity run shub://truatpasteurdotfr/singularity-docker-centos7-calibre
recipe at
https://github.com/truatpasteurdotfr/singularity-docker-centos7-calibre
Feel free to follow-up on the singularity mailing list or slack.
Cheers
Tru
Tru,
Thanks! I got it up and running and was coming back for just that information.
Fascinating test application choice too.
That *looks* like I can start my app and just log out and let it run. Do I
have that correct?
