podman-version(1)

💖 podman-version — the podman manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so you wanna know what version of podman you're running? say less. this is podman-version, straight out of the General Commands Manual section of your local man pages, and she is here to tell you literally everything about your podman build. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

podman-version — Display the Podman version information

like. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

podman version [options]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

bestie, this command spills ALL the tea about your podman. it shows you the following:

• Remote API Version
• Version
• Go Version
• Git Commit
• Build Time
• OS
• Architecture

it's giving "receipts" energy and honestly? we're obsessed. 🫶

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --format, -f=format — switch the output format to "json" or a Go template. yeah, she's flexible like that. 🌈

so when you go the Go template route, here's your cheat sheet for the top-level placeholders:

• .Client ... — Version of local podman
• .Server ... — Version of remote podman

and here's the iconic part: each of the above fields branch deeper into further subfields such as .Version, .APIVersion, .GoVersion, and more. so you can go as deep as your heart desires. 💜

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

look at that. surgical. precise. main character energy fr fr. 🔥

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• --help, -h — Print usage statement. she will literally tell you how to use her. so helpful of her honestly. 🙈

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• podman(1)

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✨ 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⟩

shoutout to the legends who wrote this down for us. we owe them everything. 👑

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okay that's the whole page!! go forth and check your version, bestie — you got this 💖

this gorgeous little page comes to you from the podman-version(1) family (yes, that's the manual name and it's in the header AND the footer, so you know she's official ✨), part of the General Commands Manual, and that footer version/date line is right down at the bottom of the original where all the cool manual pages keep it. slay, go read more man pages, ily 🦋