Admin Guide

Welcome to the Singularity Admin Guide!

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

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

• Admin Quickstart
  • Architecture of Singularity
  • Singularity Security
  • Installation from Source
  • Configuration
  • Test Singularity
• Installing Singularity
  • 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
  • Fakeroot feature
• Security in Singularity
  • Security Policy
  • Background
  • Setuid & User Namespaces
  • Runtime & User Privilege Model
  • Singularity Image Format (SIF)
  • Configuration & Runtime Options
• Appendix
• License