diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eb06f09d1853c073da780dc5d14b6e86cfcbfc16..277f76853b32137a2b20b3a8c75c10508b56d96e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ target/
 # Jupyter Notebook
 .ipynb_checkpoints
 
+# singularity containers
+*.sif
+
 # pyenv
 .python-version