Section 1 · User commands

podman-version.1

Package: podman

podman-version

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
Example
SEE ALSO
HISTORY


NAME

podman-version − Display the Podman version information

SYNOPSIS

podman version [options]

DESCRIPTION

Shows the following information: Remote API Version, Version, Go Version, Git Commit, Build Time, OS, and Architecture.

OPTIONS

—format, -f=format

Change output format to “json” or a Go template.

PlaceholderDescription
.Client …Version of local podman
.Server …Version of remote podman

Each of the above fields branch deeper into further subfields such as .Version, .APIVersion, .GoVersion, and more.

Example

A sample output of the version command:

$ podman version
Version: 2.0.0
API Version: 1
Go Version: go1.14.2
Git Commit: 4520664f63c3a7f9a80227715359e20069d95542
Built: Tue May 19 10:48:59 2020
OS/Arch: linux/amd64

Filtering out only the version:

$ podman version —format ’{{.Client.Version}}’
2.0.0

—help, -h

Print usage statement

SEE ALSO

podman(1)

HISTORY

November 2018, Added —format flag by Tomas Tomecek ttomecek@redhat.com ⟨ mailto:ttomecek@redhat.com⟩ July 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com ⟨ mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩