SLURM capabilities in a container

Case below specific for Rackham
Credits to Camille Clouard for the solution, adapted from the original source.

Bind the necessary tools and libraries

On Rackham

singularity exec -B /usr/bin/sbatch,/usr/lib64/slurm,/etc/slurm,/run/munge,/usr/lib64/libmunge.so.2 container.sif  script.sh

Patch on the fly userID and groupID for the SLURM manager in script.sh before calling SLURM commands.

...
# Params to match SLURMon Rackham   
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
echo "slurm:x:151:151:Slurm:/:/sbin/nologin" >> /etc/passwd
echo "slurm:x:151:" >> /etc/group

/opt/slurm/bin/<slurm_command> <optional_arguments>
...