shub bootstrap module

This module allows you to build a container from a container hosted on Singularity Hub.

Overview

You can use an existing container on Singularity Hub as your “base,” and then add customization. This allows you to build multiple images from the same starting point. For example, you may want to build several containers with the same custom python installation, the same custom compiler toolchain, or the same base MPI installation. Instead of building these from scratch each time, you could create a base container on Singularity Hub and then build new containers from that existing base container adding customizations in %post, %environment, %runscript, etc.

Keywords

Bootstrap: shub

The Bootstrap keyword is always mandatory. It describes the bootstrap module to use.

From: shub://<registry>/<username>/<container-name>:<tag>@digest

The From keyword is mandatory. It specifies the container to use as a base. registry is optional and defaults to singularity-hub.org. tag and digest are also optional. tag defaults to latest and digest can be left blank if you want the latest build.

Notes

When bootstrapping from a Singularity Hub image, all previous definition files that led to the creation of the current image will be stored in a directory within the container called /.singularity.d/bootstrap_history. Singularity will also alert you if environment variables have been changed between the base image and the new image during bootstrap.