Building Apptainer Containers on a HPC - tannerjared/MRI_Guide GitHub Wiki

Before building on an HPC, especially if there is a $HOME directory that has limited space, set some environmental variables first.

If you are building a container (in this example fmriprep) and are in an appropriate directory:

export TMPDIR=$PWD
apptainer build fmriprep-23.2.1.sif docker://nipreps/fmriprep:23.2.1

When running a container, you can also set $APPTAINERENV_TMPDIR to an appropriate directory.