Docker is the most widely used containerization software and has seen enormous growth in usage in recent times. You can read more about it at https://www.docker.com/.
A security-minded alternative to Docker is rkt, which can be found at https://coreos.com/rkt/.
If you are not able to use Docker; for example, if you do not have permissions, as will be the case on most computer clusters, then take a look at Singularity at https://www.sylabs.io/singularity/.
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