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Initialize Spice app in the current working directory.

Usage

• app_name: The name of the app. If this is not provided, Spice will prompt for the name, defaulting to the name of the current working directory.

Flags

• -h, --help Print this help message

Examples

> spice init taxi-trips

2025/01/09 16:43:02 INFO Initialized taxi-trips/spicepod.yaml

The command creates a spicepod.yaml with basic initial metadata about the app. For this example, the spicepod.yaml file is initialized to the following:

If no app name is provided, Spice initializes the Spicepod in the current working directory. For example:

After execution, the current working directory contains the file spicepod.yaml with the same configuration as the previous example: