Admin Guide

Welcome to the SingularityCE Admin Guide!

This guide aims to cover installation instructions, configuration detail, and other topics important to system administrators working with SingularityCE.

See the user guide for more information about how to use SingularityCE.

• Admin Quickstart
  • Architecture of SingularityCE
  • SingularityCE Security
  • OCI Compatibility
  • Installation from Source
  • Installation from RPM/Deb Packages
  • Configuration
  • Test SingularityCE
• Installing SingularityCE
  • Installation on Linux
  • Installation on Windows or Mac
• Configuration files
  • singularity.conf
  • cgroups.toml
  • ecl.toml
  • GPU Library Configuration
  • capability.json
  • seccomp-profiles
  • remote.yaml
• User Namespaces & Fakeroot
  • User Namespace Requirements
  • Unprivileged Installations
  • –userns option
  • –sif-fuse option
  • Fakeroot feature
  • Unprivileged Builds Without User Namespaces
• Security in SingularityCE
  • Security Policy
  • Background
  • Setuid & User Namespaces
  • Runtime & User Privilege Model
  • Singularity Image Format (SIF)
  • Configuration & Runtime Options
• Appendix
• License