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 July 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com