Frits Sweijen & Alexandar Mechev: Streamlined deployment of astronomical software

Описание: Building, testing and deploying complex software on a distributed system is difficult. Several steps are necessary for verification and validation of the software. This includes building and testing software packages, integration tests for scientific pipelines and verification of data quality. Performing these steps is time consuming for data processing pipelines that change daily. The result is a set of ever-changing software packages that produce results of unknown quality. We present a method to build and test astronomical software on a distributed environment using version control (git) and containerization (singularity). Our system can make daily builds of our software, perform unit and integration tests and version the resulting images. The resulting images will make astronomical processing reproducible.