Charliecloud is a lightweight, fully unprivileged, open source container implementation for HPC applications. It can handle the entire container workflow, including building images, pushing/pulling to registries, and dealing with accelerators like GPUs.

We take a unique approach to containerization while remaining compatible with the broader container ecosystem where it matters.

The project is a member of the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) and, transitively, the Linux Foundation (LF).

Documentation

Select your version:

• latest (permalink to current release; v0.39 at present)
• main (current tip of development)
• v0.39
• v0.38
• v0.37
• v0.36

Note that we support only the current release.

Help

• Report a bug or request a feature on GitLab.com.

• Source code also on GitLab.com.

• Mailing lists (we are friendly):

  • announce — Charliecloud announcements. Parent for the other lists, i.e., subscribing to one of them automatically subscribes to this one.

  • users — Discussion about using Charliecloud.

  • dev — Discussion about Charliecloud development, as well as some automated development-related messages.

  • tsc-private — Private e-mail list for Charliecloud Technical Steering Committee members. Use for sensitive matters that cannot be discussed publically on dev.