RSE Workbench: An Environment Generator Workflow

An advanced Quarto Manual for assembling reproducible HPC environments

Overview

This example shows Quarto Manuals at their most ambitious in the current project: a reproducible RSE workbench assembled across many pages.

Unlike the smaller examples, this manual spans platform setup, container construction, language package management, activation checks, and scheduler integration.

It is included here as a case study in scale.

Some of the page names retain language from the earlier development history of the workbench. That is acceptable for the example because the important point is that each page still behaves like a manual page:

• check whether the step is ready to run;
• perform one concrete part of the environment assembly;
• verify that the result is usable before proceeding.