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 Ver-
sion, 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⟩
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