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NVIDIA / enroot

A simple yet powerful tool to turn traditional container/OS images into unprivileged sandboxes.
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Import and start a Image with just one line. #124

Closed likejazz closed 2 years ago

likejazz commented 2 years ago

To start an Ubuntu image from Docker Hub, You should write the three commands as follows:

$ enroot import docker://ubuntu
$ enroot create ubuntu.sqsh
$ enroot start ubuntu

But this is very verbose and complicated. Especially, engineers don't want to repeat similar commands every time. They want to shrink to just one line as follows:

$ enroot start docker://ubuntu

This one line command works in the same way as the three-line commands(import, create, start) above.

How about this?

3XX0 commented 2 years ago

While this is not ideal, we want to keep things simple in the current design. We're thinking about some alternatives in the long run that should ease this process.

Having said that, most users tend to keep the squashfs image around or the container filesystem and reuse those, so you don't generally type these 3 commands every single time. You could also remove the create if you were to use fuse and wanted a temporary container. The Slurm integration (pyxis) is also simplifying these steps.