apptainer(1)

💖 NAME 💖

hiii bestie, welcome to the apptainer(1) manual — this page is specifically about apptainer-oci, and its whole thing is: Manage OCI containers. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

apptainer oci

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so this command lets you manage containers from OCI bundle directories. no cap, that’s the vibe. 🫶

⚠️ NOTE: all oci commands requires to run as root. fr fr, root only, bestie.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help[=false] — help for oci ✨

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🌸 EXAMPLE 🌸

all group commands have their own help output, iykyk:

All group commands have their own help output:

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

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go be nosy with these sibling pages, bestie:

• apptainer(1)
• apptainer-oci-attach(1)
• apptainer-oci-create(1)
• apptainer-oci-delete(1)
• apptainer-oci-exec(1)
• apptainer-oci-kill(1)
• apptainer-oci-mount(1)
• apptainer-oci-pause(1)
• apptainer-oci-resume(1)
• apptainer-oci-run(1)
• apptainer-oci-start(1)
• apptainer-oci-state(1)
• apptainer-oci-umount(1)
• apptainer-oci-update(1)

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💜 HISTORY 💜

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

okay bye bestie 💋 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra, Oct 2026, and this is apptainer(1), periodt.