Limitations/requirements of the containers that SkyPilot can run

[Ark-kun]

Systems like Docker, Kubernetes and Kubeflow Pipelines allow running arbitrary containers. Does SkyPilot have any limitations in this aspect?

Can you use SkyPilot to launch containers in the following cases:

• Does not have Bash
• No Python (only has Java for example)
• Has Python, but no pip
• Has Python, but no internet access
• Has Python, but very old/new version

[romilbhardwaj]

Hey @Ark-kun; details on container image requirements are here: https://docs.skypilot.co/en/latest/reference/kubernetes/kubernetes-getting-started.html#using-custom-images

For the specific ones you mention:

• requires Bash
• requires internet access
• Python or pip is not required IIRC, we install the required version if not present