Sharing Computational Environments with Pixi

by Raniere Silva

Tuesday 13 Jan 2026, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

Online, Zoom

Do you want to learn more about ways to improve how to share computational environments? Join our workshop!

Format: Interactive online workshop

What to expect:

• Why describing computational environment matters for reproducibility?

• What is viable for virtual environments now?

• How to use Pixi to manage dependencies and consistent environments.

By the end of this session you will be able to...

• Create a new virtual environment

• Configure the new virtual environment

• Share the new virtual environment

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of the command line

• Basic knowledge of Git

• An account in a Git hosting, e.g. Codeberg, GitLab, GitHub

Your trainer

Raniere Silva is a research software engineer at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and one of the operators of mybinder.org. Previously, he contributed to The Carpentries.