GOOD 2025

Containerized Open OnDemand Base
03-19, 13:00–14:30 (US/Eastern), Belfer Case Study Room (CGIS S020)

A comprehensive overview of taking a base container setup, building of the image and standing up of ood in a container.


This presentation will go over taking my base for a containerized Open OnDemand deployment and standing it up from scratch. Using a Dockerfile to build the image with Podman we will go over the various configuration requirements, all in files contained within the Git repo. At the end we will have a live OOD instance running in a Podman container and managed at the system level with a systemd unit file.

I am an Linux HPC Systems Administrator with over 5 years of experience. I have worked on over half a dozen entirely different clusters for various Universities and projects. In that time, I have deployed OOD over a dozen times, each one having its own uniqueness. I have worked with OOD since version 1.6 and during that time have deployed many apps as well as writing custom ones and initializers.