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Generic templated configuration management for Kubernetes, Terraform and other things, driven by a hierarchical reclass inventory and Jsonnet, Jinja2, Kadet, Helm and other input engines

From kapitan 0.36.3-r2 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running copier --help (exit 0). permalink

copier 9.19.1

Create a new project from a template.

Docs in https://copier.readthedocs.io/

WARNING! Use only trusted project templates, as they might execute code with the
same level of access as your user.


Usage:
    copier [SWITCHES] [SUBCOMMAND [SWITCHES]] args...

Meta-switches:
    --completions SHELL:{bash, fish} Prints shell completion script and quits
    -h, --help                      Prints this help message and quits
    --help-all                      Prints help messages of all sub-commands and
                                    quits
    -v, --version                   Prints the program's version and quits

Sub-commands:
    check-update                    Check if a copy is using the latest version
                                    of its original template; see 'copier check-
                                    update --help' for more info
    copy                            Copy from a template source to a
                                    destination.; see 'copier copy --help' for
                                    more info
    recopy                          Recopy a subproject from its original
                                    template; see 'copier recopy --help' for
                                    more info
    update                          Update a subproject from its original
                                    template; see 'copier update --help' for
                                    more info
Options (3)
OptionDescriptionSource
-h, --helpPrints this help message and quitshelp
--help-allPrints help messages of all sub-commands and quitshelp
-v, --versionPrints the program's version and quitshelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.