apptainer(1)

NAME
apptainer-sif-add - Add data object

SYNOPSIS
apptainer sif add [flags]

DESCRIPTION
Add a data object to a SIF image.

OPTIONS
--alignment=0
    set alignment [default: 4096 with --datatype 4-Partition, 0 otherwise]

--datatype=0
    the type of data to add [NEEDED, no default]:
  1-Deffile, 2-EnvVar, 3-Labels,
  4-Partition, 5-Signature, 6-GenericJSON,
  7-Generic, 8-CryptoMessage, 9-SBOM,
  10-OCI.RootIndex, 11-OCI.Blob

--filename=""
    set logical filename/handle [default: input filename]

--groupid=0
    set groupid [default: 0]

-h, --help[=false]
    help for add

--link=0
    set link pointer [default: 0]

--partarch=0
    the main architecture used (with --datatype 4-Partition) [NEEDED, no default]:
  1-386, 2-amd64, 3-arm,
  4-arm64, 5-ppc64, 6-ppc64le,
  7-mips, 8-mipsle, 9-mips64,
  10-mips64le, 11-s390x, 12-riscv64,
  13-loong64

--partfs=0
    the filesystem used (with --datatype 4-Partition) [NEEDED, no default]:
  1-Squash, 2-Ext3, 3-ImmuObj,
  4-Raw

--parttype=0
    the type of partition (with --datatype 4-Partition) [NEEDED, no default]:
  1-System, 2-PrimSys, 3-Data,
  4-Overlay

--sbomformat=""
    the SBOM format (with --datatype 9-sbom):
  cyclonedx-json, cyclonedx-xml, github-json,
  spdx-json, spdx-rdf, spdx-tag-value,
  spdx-yaml, syft-json

--signentity=""
    the entity that signs (with --datatype 5-Signature) [NEEDED, no default]:
  example: 433FE984155206BD962725E20E8713472A879943

--signhash=0
    the signature hash used (with --datatype 5-Signature) [NEEDED, no default]:
  1-SHA256, 2-SHA384, 3-SHA512,
  4-BLAKE2s_256, 5-BLAKE2b_256

EXAMPLE
    sif add image.sif recipe.def --datatype 1
    sif add image.sif rootfs.squashfs --datatype 4 --parttype 1 --partfs 1 --partarch 2
    sif add image.sif signature.bin --datatype 5 --signentity 433FE984155206BD962725E20E8713472A879943 --signhash 1

SEE ALSO
apptainer-sif(1)

HISTORY
7-May-2026 Auto generated by spf13/cobra