buildah-inspect(1)

💖 buildah-inspect(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual glow-up edition of buildah-inspect — this is the little page that tells you how to snoop on your containers, images and manifest lists and get the low-level tea. 🫖✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

buildah-inspect — Display information about working containers or images or manifest lists.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

buildah inspect [options] [--] object

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically? It prints the low-level information on Buildah object(s) — think containers, images, manifest lists — and you point at them by name or ID. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 👑

By default, it renders all the results in a JSON array. no cap.

Here's the lil gotcha you need to know: if the container, image, or manifest lists all have the same name, then this will return container JSON for an unspecified type. like, it just picks container energy. 🫠

And if a format is specified, the given template gets executed for each result. one template, all the results, periodt.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --format, -f template — Use template as a Go template when formatting the output.

Real talk: if you're using this option, you should already be familiar with the https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/ in the Go standard library, AND with the internals of Buildah's implementation. iykyk. this is not a beginner-beginner situation, bestie. 💀

• --type, -t container | image | manifest — Specify whether object is a container, image or a manifest list. pick one, tell it what you're looking at. 🦋

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here's the moment you've been waiting for, the actual commands, copy them exactly fr fr:

buildah inspect containerID

buildah inspect --type container containerID

buildah inspect --type image imageID

buildah inspect --format '{{.OCIv1.Config.Env}}' alpine

look at that last one just casually pulling the env out of alpine with a Go template. iconic. 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• buildah(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋 this lil manual came from the buildah crew and it's dated May 2017 — yes, she's been serving this info since 2017 and she still eats every single time. 💖 mwah, go inspect something. ✨🎀