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✨ NAME ✨

apptainer-oci-run — Create/start/attach/delete a container from a bundle directory (root user only) 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

apptainer oci run -b  [run options...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

run will invoke the equivalent of the create, start, attach, and delete commands in a row. That’s the whole slay: one command doing the whole lil sequence. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -b, --bundle="" — specify the OCI bundle path (required) 🎀
• -h, --help[=false] — help for run 🙈
• --log-format="kubernetes" — specify the log file format. Available formats are basic, kubernetes and json 💖
• -l, --log-path="" — specify the log file path 🦋
• --pid-file="" — specify the pid file 🌸
• -s, --sync-socket="" — specify the path to unix socket for state synchronization ⭐

🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

$ apptainer oci run -b ~/bundle mycontainer

is equivalent to :

$ apptainer oci create -b ~/bundle mycontainer
$ apptainer oci start mycontainer
$ apptainer oci attach mycontainer
$ apptainer oci delete mycontainer

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• apptainer-oci(1) — go peek at this one too, bestie 🫶

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

22-Oct-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra 💜

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