# Enabling rootless Linux Containers in multi-user environments: the udocker tool

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01758 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.01758/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 6 Nov 2017.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Containers are increasingly used as means to distribute and run Linux services and applications. In this paper we describe the architectural design and implementation of udocker, a tool which enables the user to execute Linux containers in user mode. We also present a few practical applications, using a range of scientific codes characterized by different requirements: from single core execution to MPI parallel execution and execution on GPGPUs.