wip! ploughed Angeles's

notes

@@ -8,3 +8,19 @@ out of pressing need, and over time we've started taking that move as an ideal
 choice to imitate rather than a pragmatic choice made under duress. I think
 there are other systems out there that are better matches for our automation
 needs than AWS Batch, so I'm hesitant to reinvent a bunch of those wheels.
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+                  | Docker          | Conda     | Singularity | AWS Batch | Ambient
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+Local or remote?  | local or remote | local     | local       | remote    | local
+Isolation level   | great (3)       | some (1)  | good (2)    | great (3) | none (0)
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+"Local" means "on the same computer where `nextstrain` is being run".
+"Remote" means "on a different computer".
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+Docker can be local or remote, but is most often used locally.
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+"Isolation level" is a relative ranking from least isolated (none, 0) to most isolated (great, 3) from the underlying computer system.