apptainer(1)

✨ APPTAINER-PLUGIN — like, the manual page bestie ✨

okay so quick vibe check first: this page is from the apptainer(1) manual fam — that's the section 1 general commands manual, iykyk. and this particular page? it's all about plugins. let's get into it 🫶

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💅 NAME

apptainer-plugin — manage Apptainer plugins. that's it, that's the whole name. short, sweet, main character energy ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS

apptainer plugin [plugin options...]

like, you run apptainer plugin, you throw some plugin options at it, done. periodt 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so the plugin command is literally your whole plugin-management situation. it lets you manage Apptainer plugins, which are these cute add-on things that give extra functionality on top of your default Apptainer installation. so like, stock Apptainer but make it extra. slay 💖

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -h, --help[=false] — shows the help for plugin. note the [=false] bestie, that's the default right there — it's false until you ask for it. iconic behavior honestly.

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🌈 EXAMPLE

fr fr, all the group commands have their own help output, so you can go get help for exactly the thing you need:

$ apptainer help plugin compile
$ apptainer plugin list --help

see? one asks the top-level help about compile, the other asks plugin list directly. both valid, both ate 👑

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💜 SEE ALSO

• apptainer(1)
• apptainer-plugin-compile(1)
• apptainer-plugin-create(1)
• apptainer-plugin-disable(1)
• apptainer-plugin-enable(1)
• apptainer-plugin-inspect(1)
• apptainer-plugin-install(1)
• apptainer-plugin-list(1)
• apptainer-plugin-uninstall(1)

like, the whole plugin friend group. go say hi 🧚

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🎀 HISTORY

22-Oct-2026 — auto generated by spf13/cobra. not me being a whole robot-authored page 😭 still cute though 💀

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ngl bestie, that's genuinely everything on this page — nothing skipped, nothing invented, all facts intact 💅

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⭐ and that's a wrap! this page was auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Oct 2026, and it lives right here in the apptainer(1) manual. mwah, go manage some plugins 🍓💖✨