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podman-version(1) General Commands Manual podman-version(1)

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.

Placeholder Description
.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⟩