Open dipietrantonio opened 1 year ago
No worries! To install from a local container you likely want to use shpc add. Check out the docs here and let me know if you have questions - but I’m going to bed so likely will respond tomorrow!
https://singularity-hpc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/user-guide.html#add
Hi @vsoch , that is exactly what I would like to do. What I do not understand is how to specify the location on the local filesystem. For containers on DockerHub we have the docker
keyword. What keyword should I add at the top to point to the local container? It would be nice to have it specified in the generated container.yaml
.
The instructions are in the documentation I linked for how to use add. When you specify the path with it, it will be moved into your registry.
After investigating a bit and mostly thanks to @marcodelapierre I managed to figure out what was happening for me. Bear with me while I explain. I indeed followed the instructions in your documentation but when I opened the generated recipe I was a bit puzzled about not finding a reference to the full path I passed as an argument at the top. Just now I realise what you were referring to when you said " it will be moved into your registry". You meant the container image is copied! Indeed, looking at the last uncommented lines, we have a path
property pointing to a sif file (with a mangled name).
I had not understood that also due to my inexperience with the software. I suggest extending the documentation with one sentence on how the container file is copied within the registry together with the recipe. Otherwise, I (and possibly others) would expect the recipe to point to the original sif, in a similar way we point to a container hosted online on DockerHub.
Thanks for the amazing software and hope this feedback has been useful to you!
Definitely! Would you care to open a PR to tweak the docs with this extra line that would have made it easier for you to understand?
Hi, I would like to create a container module from a container I have developed that is unavailable on Docker Hub. It would be great for SHPC to allow pulling containers from a local path. I could not find this feature documented so I assume it does not exist. If this is already supported, would you point me to the relevant bit of the documentation?
Thank you!
EDIT: I have just realised I have opened this issue in the wrong repo,
shpc-registry
instead ofshpc
. Sorry for the confusion :)