00-introduction

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Introduction

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This workshop is designed for a beginner with little to now

By the end of this workshop you will have:

• Created 16 contianers.

• Executed 12+ commands with containers.

• Build 2 custom containers.

• Build 2 websites and viewed them with containers.

• Run the most common singularity commands (pull, build, exec)

• Run the exec command command with bind mounts to access data.

• Encounter 3 gotchas and discuss solutions to deal with them.

• Gotcha 1: Repositories are managed by other users.

• Solution 1: Keep good documentiaton on how your software was built.

• Gotcha 2: Cant mount the current working directory.
  

• Solution 2: Try the -B $PWD flag.

• Gotcha 3: Cant mount the the directory with the data.
  

• Solution 3: Try the -B : flag.