podman-artifact-pull(1)

🦋 podman-artifact-pull(1) 🦋

Okay so this is podman-artifact-pull(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it’s giving “grab an artifact from a registry and keep it local” energy. Bestie, let’s get into it. 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

podman-artifact-pull — pulls an artifact from a registry and stores it locally. Iconic behavior, honestly. ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

podman artifact pull [options] source

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

podman artifact pull copies an artifact from a registry onto the local machine. That’s the whole vibe: registry artifact in, local copy out. 🫶

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📦 SOURCE 📦

SOURCE is the location from which the artifact image is obtained. Literally the “where is this artifact coming from” part, bestie.

Pull from a registry:

$ podman artifact pull quay.io/foobar/artifact:special

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --authfile=path — path of the authentication file. Default is ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/containers/auth.json on Linux, and $HOME/.config/containers/auth.json on Windows/macOS. The file is created by podman login. If the authorization state is not found there, $HOME/.docker/config.json is checked, which is set using docker login.

Note: there is also the option to override the default path of the authentication file by setting the REGISTRY_AUTH_FILE environment variable. This can be done with export REGISTRY_AUTH_FILE=path.

• --cert-dir=path — use certificates at path (*.crt, *.cert, *.key) to connect to the registry. Default: /etc/containers/certs.d. For details, see containers-certs.d(5). This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines. 🫠
• --creds=[username[:password]] — the [username[:password]] to use to authenticate with the registry, if required. If one or both values are not supplied, a command line prompt appears and the value can be entered. The password is entered without echo. 🙈

Note that the specified credentials are only used to authenticate against target registries. They are not used for mirrors or when the registry gets rewritten (see containers-registries.conf(5)); to authenticate against those consider using a containers-auth.json(5) file.

• --decryption-key=key[:passphrase] — the [key[:passphrase]] to be used for decryption of images. Key can point to keys and/or certificates. Decryption is tried with all keys. If the key is protected by a passphrase, it is required to be passed in the argument and omitted otherwise. 🔑
• --help, -h — print the usage statement. Classic helpful icon behavior. 💁‍♀️
• --quiet, -q — suppress informational output messages (which indicate which instruction is being processed, and the progress of the instruction). Print only the final error message or successful completion information, such as the image or container ID. Shhh era. 🤫
• --retry=attempts — number of times to retry pulling or pushing images between the registry and local storage in case of failure. Default is 3. Resilient queen. 🔥
• --retry-delay=duration — duration of delay between retry attempts when pulling or pushing images between the registry and local storage in case of failure. The default is to start at two seconds and then exponentially back off. The delay is used when this value is set, and no exponential back off occurs. ⏳
• --tls-verify — require HTTPS and verify certificates when contacting registries (default: true). If explicitly set to true, TLS verification is used. If set to false, TLS verification is not used. If not specified, TLS verification is used unless the target registry is listed as an insecure registry in containers-registries.conf(5). Security check, but make it fashion. 🛡️

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📁 FILES 📁

No files are listed in this section in the original. Keeping it here because section order is sacred, periodt. 💅

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Pull an artifact from a registry:

podman artifact pull quay.io/baude/artifact:josey
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob e741c35a27bb done   |
Copying config 44136fa355 done   |
Writing manifest to image destination

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

podman(1), podman-artifact(1), podman-login(1), containers-certs.d(5)

🧯 Troubleshooting 🧯

See podman-troubleshooting(7) for solutions to common issues. We love a support link. 🫶

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📜 HISTORY 📜

Jan 2025, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩

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💖 Cute lil footer sign-off: podman-artifact-pull(1) • General Commands Manual • Jan 2025 history date. Bye bestie, go pull your artifacts! 💖