Think R1 research university or government lab level HPC clusters…
These are almost always multi-tennant with differing levels of trust and experience between users. The data processed here can often have data access agreements or laws that limit who can see what data. You can’t have a poorly configured container exposing data, for example. So, the number of people who have root access is very limited. Normal users running workflows would all be required to run code rootless.
These are almost always multi-tennant with differing levels of trust and experience between users. The data processed here can often have data access agreements or laws that limit who can see what data. You can’t have a poorly configured container exposing data, for example. So, the number of people who have root access is very limited. Normal users running workflows would all be required to run code rootless.