DOT-Files/Gentoo/gentooamd/home/user/.tldrc/tldr/pages/linux/apptainer-shell.md

apptainer shell

Start an interactive shell within an Apptainer container. See also: apptainer exec, apptainer run. More information: https://apptainer.org/docs/user/main/cli/apptainer_shell.html.

• Start an interactive shell inside a container:

apptainer shell {{path/to/image.sif}}

• Start a shell with a bind mount from host to container:

apptainer shell {{[-B|--bind]}} {{path/to/source}}:{{path/to/destination}} {{path/to/image.sif}}

• Start a shell with environment variables:

apptainer shell --env {{variable}}={{value}} {{path/to/image.sif}}

• Start a shell in fully isolated mode (contained filesystem, PID, IPC, and clean environment):

apptainer shell {{[-C|--containall]}} {{path/to/image.sif}}

• Start a shell with a writable temporary filesystem overlay:

apptainer shell --writable-tmpfs {{path/to/image.sif}}

• Start a shell with NVIDIA GPU support:

apptainer shell --nv {{path/to/image.sif}}

• Start a shell using a specific shell program:

apptainer shell {{[-s|--shell]}} {{path/to/shell}} {{path/to/image.sif}}

• Display help:

apptainer shell {{[-h|--help]}}