---
title: "Bytesize: Explaining Wave containers"
description: "Build, upload, and manage container images using Wave"
url: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/talks/2024/06/11/bytesize_wave_containers"
site: "phil.ewels.co.uk"
author: "Phil Ewels"
section: "Talks"
type: "Bytesize"
date: "2024-06-11"
location: "Online"
event: "https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_using_wave"
video: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HVnB_WTyJU"
---

# Bytesize: Explaining Wave containers

> Build, upload, and manage container images using Wave

Wave is a container provisioning service integrated with Nextflow.
With Wave, you can build, upload, and manage the container images required by your data analysis workflows automatically and on-demand during pipeline execution.
Phil Ewels ([@ewels](https://github.com/ewels/)) will show us in this bytesize the different ways of how wave can be utilized.

Phil will cover:

- The problems that Wave tries to solve (why you should care)
- An introduction to how Docker containers are made
- A breakdown of how Wave works
- How Wave helps with: speed of development, reproducibility, security, SBOMs, repository authorisation.
- Example usage of Wave using in Nextflow pipelines, using the Wave CLI and the API.
- Some ideas about how nf-core could make use of Wave in the future

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From the personal website of Phil Ewels, a software developer and bioinformatician in Stockholm, Sweden: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/
The whole site as Markdown: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/llms.txt