Application and environment virtualization formerly known as Singularity
Apptainer provides functionality to make portable
containers that can be used across host environments.
Version: 1.1.6
General Commands | |
| apptainer | Linux container platform optimized for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Enterprise Performance Computing (EPC) |
| apptainer-build | Build an Apptainer image |
| apptainer-cache | Manage the local cache |
| apptainer-cache-clean | Clean your local Apptainer cache |
| apptainer-cache-list | List your local Apptainer cache |
| apptainer-capability | Manage Linux capabilities for users and groups |
| apptainer-capability-add | Add capabilities to a user or group (requires root) |
| apptainer-capability-avail | Show description for available capabilities |
| apptainer-capability-drop | Remove capabilities from a user or group (requires root) |
| apptainer-capability-list | Show capabilities for a given user or group |
| apptainer-checkpoint | Manage container checkpoint state (experimental) |
| apptainer-checkpoint-create | Create empty checkpoint storage (experimental) |
| apptainer-checkpoint-delete | Delete a checkpoint (experimental) |
| apptainer-checkpoint-instance | Checkpoint the state of a running instance (experimental) |
| apptainer-checkpoint-list | List local checkpoints (experimental) |
| apptainer-config | Manage various apptainer configuration (root user only) |
| apptainer-config-fakeroot | Manage fakeroot user mappings entries (root user only) |
| apptainer-config-global | Edit apptainer.conf from command line (root user only or unprivileged installation) |
| apptainer-delete | Deletes requested image from the library |
| apptainer-exec | Run a command within a container |
| apptainer-inspect | Show metadata for an image |
| apptainer-instance | Manage containers running as services |
| apptainer-instance-list | List all running and named Apptainer instances |
| apptainer-instance-start | Start a named instance of the given container image |
| apptainer-instance-stats | Get stats for a named instance |
| apptainer-instance-stop | Stop a named instance of a given container image |
| apptainer-key | Manage OpenPGP keys |
| apptainer-key-export | Export a public or private key into a specific file |
| apptainer-key-import | Import a local key into the local or global keyring |
| apptainer-key-list | List keys in your local or in the global keyring |
| apptainer-key-newpair | Create a new key pair |
| apptainer-key-pull | Download a public key from a key server |
| apptainer-key-push | Upload a public key to a key server |
| apptainer-key-remove | Remove a local public key from your local or the global keyring |
| apptainer-key-search | Search for keys on a key server |
| apptainer-oci | Manage OCI containers |
| apptainer-oci-attach | Attach console to a running container process (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-create | Create a container from a bundle directory (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-delete | Delete container (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-exec | Execute a command within container (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-kill | Kill a container (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-mount | Mount create an OCI bundle from SIF image (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-pause | Suspends all processes inside the container (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-resume | Resumes all processes previously paused inside the container (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-run | Create/start/attach/delete a container from a bundle directory (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-start | Start container process (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-state | Query state of a container (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-umount | Umount delete bundle (root user only) |
| apptainer-oci-update | Update container cgroups resources (root user only) |
| apptainer-overlay | Manage an EXT3 writable overlay image |
| apptainer-overlay-create | Create EXT3 writable overlay image |
| apptainer-plugin | Manage Apptainer plugins |
| apptainer-plugin-compile | Compile an Apptainer plugin |
| apptainer-plugin-create | Create a plugin skeleton directory |
| apptainer-plugin-disable | disable an installed Apptainer plugin |
| apptainer-plugin-enable | Enable an installed Apptainer plugin |
| apptainer-plugin-inspect | Inspect an Apptainer plugin (either an installed one or an image) |
| apptainer-plugin-install | Install a compiled Apptainer plugin |
| apptainer-plugin-list | List installed Apptainer plugins |
| apptainer-plugin-uninstall | Uninstall removes the named plugin from the system |
| apptainer-pull | Pull an image from a URI |
| apptainer-push | Upload image to the provided URI |
| apptainer-remote | Manage apptainer remote endpoints, keyservers and OCI/Docker registry credentials |
| apptainer-remote-add | Add a new apptainer remote endpoint |
| apptainer-remote-add-keyserver | Add a keyserver (root user only) |
| apptainer-remote-list | List all apptainer remote endpoints, keyservers, and OCI credentials that are configured |
| apptainer-remote-login | Login to an Apptainer remote endpoint, an OCI/Docker registry or a keyserver using credentials |
| apptainer-remote-logout | Log out from an Apptainer remote endpoint, an OCI/Docker registry or a keyserver |
| apptainer-remote-remove | Remove an existing apptainer remote endpoint |
| apptainer-remote-remove-keyserver | Remove a keyserver (root user only) |
| apptainer-remote-status | Check the status of the apptainer services at an endpoint, and your authentication token |
| apptainer-remote-use | Set an Apptainer remote endpoint to be actively used |
| apptainer-run | Run the user-defined default command within a container |
| apptainer-run-help | Show the user-defined help for an image |
| apptainer-search | Search a Container Library for images |
| apptainer-shell | Run a shell within a container |
| apptainer-sif | Manipulate Singularity Image Format (SIF) images |
| apptainer-sif-add | Add data object |
| apptainer-sif-del | Delete data object |
| apptainer-sif-dump | Dump data object |
| apptainer-sif-header | Display global header |
| apptainer-sif-info | Display data object info |
| apptainer-sif-list | List data objects |
| apptainer-sif-new | Create SIF image |
| apptainer-sif-setprim | Set primary system partition |
| apptainer-sign | Attach digital signature(s) to an image |
| apptainer-test | Run the user-defined tests within a container |
| apptainer-verify | Verify cryptographic signatures attached to an image |
| apptainer-version | Show the version for Apptainer |
| singularity | Linux container platform optimized for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Enterprise Performance Computing (EPC) |
| singularity-build | Build a Singularity image |
| singularity-cache | Manage the local cache |
| singularity-cache-clean | Clean your local Singularity cache |
| singularity-cache-list | List your local Singularity cache |
| singularity-capability | Manage Linux capabilities for users and groups |
| singularity-capability-add | Add capabilities to a user or group (requires root) |
| singularity-capability-avail | Show description for available capabilities |
| singularity-capability-drop | Remove capabilities from a user or group (requires root) |
| singularity-capability-list | Show capabilities for a given user or group |
| singularity-checkpoint | alias for apptainer-checkpoint |
| singularity-checkpoint-create | alias for apptainer-checkpoint-create |
| singularity-checkpoint-delete | alias for apptainer-checkpoint-delete |
| singularity-checkpoint-instance | alias for apptainer-checkpoint-instance |
| singularity-checkpoint-list | alias for apptainer-checkpoint-list |
| singularity-config | Manage various singularity configuration (root user only) |
| singularity-config-fakeroot | Manage fakeroot user mappings entries (root user only) |
| singularity-config-global | Edit singularity.conf from command line (root user only or unprivileged installation) |
| singularity-delete | Deletes requested image from the library |
| singularity-exec | Run a command within a container |
| singularity-inspect | Show metadata for an image |
| singularity-instance | Manage containers running as services |
| singularity-instance-list | List all running and named Singularity instances |
| singularity-instance-start | Start a named instance of the given container image |
| singularity-instance-stats | Get stats for a named instance |
| singularity-instance-stop | Stop a named instance of a given container image |
| singularity-key | Manage OpenPGP keys |
| singularity-key-export | Export a public or private key into a specific file |
| singularity-key-import | Import a local key into the local or global keyring |
| singularity-key-list | List keys in your local or in the global keyring |
| singularity-key-newpair | Create a new key pair |
| singularity-key-pull | Download a public key from a key server |
| singularity-key-push | Upload a public key to a key server |
| singularity-key-remove | Remove a local public key from your local or the global keyring |
| singularity-key-search | Search for keys on a key server |
| singularity-oci | Manage OCI containers |
| singularity-oci-attach | Attach console to a running container process (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-create | Create a container from a bundle directory (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-delete | Delete container (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-exec | Execute a command within container (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-kill | Kill a container (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-mount | Mount create an OCI bundle from SIF image (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-pause | Suspends all processes inside the container (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-resume | Resumes all processes previously paused inside the container (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-run | Create/start/attach/delete a container from a bundle directory (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-start | Start container process (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-state | Query state of a container (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-umount | Umount delete bundle (root user only) |
| singularity-oci-update | Update container cgroups resources (root user only) |
| singularity-overlay | Manage an EXT3 writable overlay image |
| singularity-overlay-create | Create EXT3 writable overlay image |
| singularity-plugin | Manage Singularity plugins |
| singularity-plugin-compile | Compile a Singularity plugin |
| singularity-plugin-create | Create a plugin skeleton directory |
| singularity-plugin-disable | disable an installed Singularity plugin |
| singularity-plugin-enable | Enable an installed Singularity plugin |
| singularity-plugin-inspect | Inspect a singularity plugin (either an installed one or an image) |
| singularity-plugin-install | Install a compiled Singularity plugin |
| singularity-plugin-list | List installed Singularity plugins |
| singularity-plugin-uninstall | Uninstall removes the named plugin from the system |
| singularity-pull | Pull an image from a URI |
| singularity-push | Upload image to the provided URI |
| singularity-remote | Manage singularity remote endpoints, keyservers and OCI/Docker registry credentials |
| singularity-remote-add | Add a new singularity remote endpoint |
| singularity-remote-add-keyserver | Add a keyserver (root user only) |
| singularity-remote-list | List all singularity remote endpoints, keyservers, and OCI credentials that are configured |
| singularity-remote-login | Login to a singularity remote endpoint, an OCI/Docker registry or a keyserver using credentials |
| singularity-remote-logout | Log out from a singularity remote endpoint, an OCI/Docker registry or a keyserver |
| singularity-remote-remove | Remove an existing singularity remote endpoint |
| singularity-remote-remove-keyserver | Remove a keyserver (root user only) |
| singularity-remote-status | Check the status of the singularity services at an endpoint, and your authentication token |
| singularity-remote-use | Set a singularity remote endpoint to be actively used |
| singularity-run | Run the user-defined default command within a container |
| singularity-run-help | Show the user-defined help for an image |
| singularity-search | Search a Container Library for images |
| singularity-shell | Run a shell within a container |
| singularity-sif | Manipulate Singularity Image Format (SIF) images |
| singularity-sif-add | Add data object |
| singularity-sif-del | Delete data object |
| singularity-sif-dump | Dump data object |
| singularity-sif-header | Display global header |
| singularity-sif-info | Display data object info |
| singularity-sif-list | List data objects |
| singularity-sif-new | Create SIF image |
| singularity-sif-setprim | Set primary system partition |
| singularity-sign | Add digital signature(s) to an image |
| singularity-test | Run the user-defined tests within a container |
| singularity-verify | Verify digital signature(s) within an image |
| singularity-version | Show the version for Singularity |