apptainer(1)

💅 apptainer(1) — like, the manual page bestie 💅

okay so this is a page from the apptainer(1) manual, and honestly? it's a short one but it's a baddie. sit down, grab your matcha, we're learning about pausing containers 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

apptainer-oci-pause — suspends all processes inside the container (root user only) 💀

like... literally only root. if you're not root, this is not your moment, bestie 😭

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

apptainer oci pause

that's it. that's the whole vibe. short, iconic, to the point 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Pause will suspend all processes for the specified container ID.

so you point it at a container ID and every process inside just... stops. frozen. paused. like when you hold your breath walking past your crush ngl 🙈 it's not gone, it's just not doing anything right now.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help[=false] — help for pause. like it literally just prints the help. [=false] is the default btw, so help is off until you ask for it. queen of consent ✨

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

$ apptainer oci pause mycontainer

see how easy that was? mycontainer gets paused, you get to feel powerful. we love a low-effort slay 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

apptainer-oci(1)

go read that one too, it's the parent situation, the main character of the whole oci family 🌈

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👑 HISTORY 👑

• 22-Oct-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra 🧚

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lowkey reminder: this page was auto generated by spf13/cobra, so if it feels a little machine-written, that's because it is, bestie 😭 the facts are all real though fr fr

okay and that's the whole page!! no cap, that's everything. <rainbow>go pause a container, you absolute icon</rainbow> 💖🌸💅

— auto generated by spf13/cobra, Oct 2026, apptainer(1) — mwah, mwah, and goodnight 🎀✨