Cluster tools & developer experience

Sarus Suite ships a set of tools that orchestrate EDF-driven container runs on HPC systems and support development workflows.

sarusctl

sarusctl is a simple CLI that launches containers from an EDF. Users submit a single command and get a scheduler-aware, policy-compliant container without having to remember low-level Podman flags.

Skybox

Skybox is a Slurm SPANK plugin. It ensures EDF jobs submit and run cleanly under Slurm, with the right cgroups, environment and node resources for the allocation. See HPC scheduler plugins for more details.

Raster

Raster is the EDF parser library: a single, versioned implementation of the EDF specification, shared across suite components so EDF semantics stay consistent.

Podman-driver

The podman-driver crate provides a Rust API that executes Podman and Parallax commands with support for EDF files. It is the glue between EDF descriptions and concrete container runtime actions.

Developer tooling

Two components help with development and CI:

• deploy – reproducible dev-to-prod environments and fast onboarding.
• containerfiles-ci – canonical build/test images with pinned dependencies, making CI behavior reproducible and easier to debug.