Changes to interactive jobs

We will soon be rolling out changes to interactive jobs. Read below how to adjust your jobs to fit the new requirements.

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Image Compression: Epilog

Our image compression saga concludes (for now) with a comparison of image sizes before and after we applied our new settings to all existing images in /enroot.

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Image Compression, Part 3

Thought we were done with compression? So did we, but as it turns out, we overlooked a Squashfs parameter that is maybe even more important than compression settings: block size.

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Image Compression Revisited

We previously tested container startup times with different Squashfs compression settings. We now revisit this topic from the perspective of users importing from Docker Hub or creating custom images.

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Building custom container images

There is now a supported way to build container images defined by Dockerfile (or Containerfile) via podman and enroot. More below the fold.

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A(C)-pocalypse Update

A quick update on the cluster state after the AC issues we experienced on 18th July.

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PyPI Cache

We’ve installed a local cache for PyPI packages. Hosting frequently installed packages locally is nicer to PyPI and should significantly speed up package installation. Read below how to use it.

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