Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions: Exam Guide 70-535

Containers on Azure Batch

Azure Batch also supports the deployment of containers. You can use Docker containers or Singularity. Singularity is similar to Docker, but it is primary designed to run on shared HPC clusters in on-premises environments and super computing installations. Singularity does not require root privileges to execute containers. It allows applications to leverage GPUs and specialized networking within the privilege scope of the executing user. This makes Singularity compatible for permissions-constrained HPC environments. Where Docker is originally designed to run Linux containers, Singularity can import Docker images and run Windows containers as well.

Singularity can be run from the Azure Cloud Shell without any installation ...