[JeremyNT]

One thing very much worth following as a replacement or supplement to modules is Singularity. It is relatively easy to create images that contain all of your required libraries, and you can run these same containers on both your cluster and on your development system.

This can substantially reduce the time to deploy new software and cut down on overhead related to managing multiple modules.

Singularity, unlike Docker, is designed to require only minimal privilege escalation and as such it's an easy sell to HPC admins, who can (at least somewhat) get out of the business of helping users figure out what the heck is weird about their environment when trying to get something running on a cluster for the first time. You can also take these containers with you and be reasonable certain they'll work on another system.

http://singularity.lbl.gov/