Accessing and Contributing Applications
Use this page to learn how to access and contribute applications to the ST4SD repositories.
- ST4SD community applications
- ST4SD contributed applications
- ST4SD official applications
- How can I contribute my application image to the ST4SD registries?
ST4SD virtual experiment developers can use application images to provide functionality for steps in their workflows.
Images provided by the ST4SD team are hosted on quay.io at the following address: https://quay.io/organization/st4sd. These images focus on simulation applications and include quantum chemistry simulation codes, molecular dynamics codes, and containerized versions of useful scientific packages.
Depending on their prefixes, the images on quay.io will fall into one of the three following categories:
community-applications: ST4SD community applicationscontributed-applications: ST4SD contributed applicationsofficial-base: ST4SD official applications
ST4SD community applications
These images are made available by the ST4SD community.
- Criteria: These application images can be provided as is.
The only requirement for them is to follow a naming convention (e.g.
${application}-${maintainer id}:${version}). - Push access: Permission to push images to the community registry is available to anyone who wants to contribute. See How can I contribute my application image to the ST4SD registries? for details.
- Maintainers: The contributors of these application images are expected to be the image maintainers.
ST4SD contributed applications
These images are donated by the ST4SD community and follow a more rigorous set of standards.
- Criteria: As a minimum, of contributed applications should conform to the following requirements:
- Follow a naming convention (e.g.
${application}-${maintainer id}:${version}). - Be stable
- Use unique tags with version information
- Run as non-root and follow OpenShift best practices for building containers
- Follow a naming convention (e.g.
- Push Access: Permission to push images that conform to “most” requirements is available to anyone who wants to contribute. See How can I contribute my application image to the ST4SD registries? for details.
- Maintainers: The contributors of these application images are expected to be the image maintainers.
ST4SD official applications
These images are maintained directly by the ST4SD development team.
- Criteria: The application images should:
- Follow a naming convention (e.g.
${application}-${maintainer id}:${version}). - Be stable
- Be size optimised
- Use unique tags with version information
- Run as non-root and follow OpenShift best practices for building containers
- Be multi-architecture (recommended)
- Follow a naming convention (e.g.
- Push Access: ST4SD development team.
- Maintainers: ST4SD development team.
How can I contribute my application image to the ST4SD registries?
ST4SD welcomes contributions. To proceed:
- Make a request for including your application images to the community or contributed applications by following the instructions in Contribute.
- The ST4SD maintainers will help you finding the most suitable category for your application image. If it is named correctly it can always be added to the community applications.
- After this you will receive push permissions to the appropriate repository where you will be able to maintain and update your image.