apptainer pull

Pull an image from a URI

Synopsis

The ‘pull’ command allows you to download or build a container from a given URI. Supported URIs include:

library: Pull an image from the currently configured library

library://user/collection/container[:tag]

docker: Pull a Docker/OCI image from Docker Hub, or another OCI registry.

docker://user/image:tag

shub: Pull an image from Singularity Hub

shub://user/image:tag

oras: Pull a SIF image from an OCI registry that supports ORAS.

oras://registry/namespace/image:tag

http, https: Pull an image using the http(s?) protocol

https://library.sylabs.io/v1/imagefile/library/default/alpine:latest

apptainer pull [pull options...] [output file] <URI>

Examples

From a library
$ apptainer pull alpine.sif library://alpine:latest

From Docker
$ apptainer pull tensorflow.sif docker://tensorflow/tensorflow:latest

From Shub
$ apptainer pull apptainer-images.sif shub://vsoch/apptainer-images

From supporting OCI registry (e.g. Azure Container Registry)
$ apptainer pull image.sif oras://<username>.azurecr.io/namespace/image:tag

Options

    --arch string      architecture to pull from library (default "amd64")
    --dir string       download images to the specific directory
    --disable-cache    do not use or create cached images/blobs
    --docker-login     login to a Docker Repository interactively
-F, --force            overwrite an image file if it exists
-h, --help             help for pull
    --library string   download images from the provided library
    --no-cleanup       do NOT clean up bundle after failed build, can be helpful for debugging
    --no-https         use http instead of https for docker:// oras:// and library://<hostname>/... URIs

SEE ALSO

Linux container platform optimized for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Enterprise Performance Computing (EPC)

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