[EN] ByteSized RSE: Fun with Containers - Simon Li

English edition [EN]: We're kickstarting a round of new ByteSized RSE online classes and podcast episodes with an episode on containers. Focusing on Podman (used in the online class) and Docker. My guest for this episode is Simon Li from the Uni. Dundee. 

Many thanks to Universe HPC for supporting this podcast. 

Containers:

• https://docs.docker.com Docker
  • https://www.docker.com/pricing/faq/ Info regarding the Docker licenses
  • https://docs.docker.com/get-started/docker-overview/ An overview of how Docker works
• https://podman.io Podman homepage
  • https://podman-desktop.io/docs/migrating-from-docker migrating from Docker to Podman
  • https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/run-containers-mac-podman running Podman on a Mac
  • https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/run-podman-windows running Podman on Windows
  • https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/podman-for-windows.md more on Podman for Windows
• https://containerd.io another container tool
• https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html repro2docker, the tool Simon mentioned
• https://kubernetes.io Kubernetes
• https://apptainer.org Apptainer (formerly Singularity)

Container history:

• https://www.aquasec.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-containers-from-1970s-chroot-to-docker-2016/ brief overview
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9CAH9nSLs the presentation from 2013 when Docker was introduced at PyCon that year
• https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ChrootHistory a brief history of the chroot(2) command of Unix
• https://fre