# runai inference nim

\[Experimental] Runs NVIDIA NIM (NVIDIA Inference Microservices) workloads. Optimized for deploying foundation models.

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for nim
```

## Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --config-file string   config file name; can be set by environment variable RUNAI_CLI_CONFIG_FILE (default "config.json")
      --config-path string   config path; can be set by environment variable RUNAI_CLI_CONFIG_PATH
  -d, --debug                enable debug mode
  -q, --quiet                enable quiet mode, suppress all output except error messages
      --verbose              enable verbose mode
```

## SEE ALSO

* [runai inference](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai_inference.md) - inference management
* [runai inference nim bash](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-bash.md) - open a bash shell in a nim inference workload
* [runai inference nim delete](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-delete.md) - delete a nim inference workload
* [runai inference nim describe](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-describe.md) - describe a nim inference workload
* [runai inference nim exec](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-exec.md) - execute a command in a nim inference workload
* [runai inference nim list](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-list.md) - list nim inference workloads
* [runai inference nim logs](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-logs.md) - view logs of a nim inference workload
* [runai inference nim port-forward](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-port-forward.md) - forward one or more local ports to a nim inference workload
* [runai inference nim scale](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-scale.md) - scale a nim inference workload
* [runai inference nim submit](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-submit.md) - submit a nim inference workload
* [runai inference nim update](/self-hosted/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-nim-update.md) - update a nim inference workload


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