Conda lock: reproducible lock files for conda environments.

Topic learning objectives

By the end of this topic, students should be able to:

1. Describe what a conda lock file is and how it differs from a conda environment.yml file

2. Create a conda lock file from a conda environment for any of the major operating systems (Windows, linux, Mac) and processor chips (intel vs arm)

3. Create a conda environment from a lock file

What is conda lock?

Conda lock file vs environment.yml

Creating conda lock files

Exercise 1

Specifying the platform

Exercise 2

Creating environments from conda lock files

Exercise 3