Introduction

There are tools associated with ACCESS models that ACCESS-NRI needs to build and deploy in a trusted and reliable manner on HPC targets. Python tools are generally deployed in conda environments, and in some cases non-python tools are also deployed in conda environments. There are limitations to conda and in some cases where we want stand-alone tools spack might be a better fit.

Proposal

The proposal is to re-use the build-cd infrastructure to build and deploy software: similar software would be grouped together in a single environment (spack.yaml).

This use case is covered by the existing infrastructure, except for some assumptions about there being a "top-level" SBR.