containers.podman.podman_image_info module – Gather info about images using podman

Note

This module is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.20.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install containers.podman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: containers.podman.podman_image_info.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Gather info about images using podman

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
executable string	Path to `podman` executable if it is not in the `$PATH` on the machine running `podman` Default: `"podman"`
name list / elements=string	List of tags or UID to gather info about. If no name is given return info about all images.

Notes

Note

Podman may required elevated privileges in order to run properly.

Examples

- name: Gather info for all images
  containers.podman.podman_image_info:

- name: Gather info on a specific image
  containers.podman.podman_image_info:
    name: nginx

- name: Gather info on several images
  containers.podman.podman_image_info:
    name:
      - redis
      - quay.io/bitnami/wildfly

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
images list / elements=string	info from all or specified images Returned: always Sample: [{"Annotations": {}, "Architecture": "amd64", "Author": "", "Comment": "", "Config": {"Cmd": ["/bin/sh"], "Env": ["PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"]}, "Created": "2023-06-14T20:42:13.993588153Z", "Digest": "sha256:3362f865019db5f14ac5154cb0db2c3741ad1cce0416045be422ad4de441b081", "GraphDriver": {"Data": {"UpperDir": "/home/podman/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/579b.../diff", "WorkDir": "/home/podman/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/579b.../work"}, "Name": "overlay"}, "History": [{"created": "2023-06-14T20:42:13.893052319Z", "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:234234234 in / "}, {"created": "2023-06-14T20:42:13.993588153Z", "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop) CMD [\"/bin/sh\"]", "empty_layer": true}], "Id": "029bed813f07be84fae0344cbf8076ced5ea3c929d5f064ba617ac7d8c610a4b", "Labels": null, "ManifestType": "application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json", "NamesHistory": ["quay.io/podman/alpine:3.15", "quay.io/podman/alpine:3.15", "docker.io/library/alpine:3.15"], "Os": "linux", "Parent": "", "RepoDigests": ["docker.io/library/alpine@sha256:3362f865019db5f14ac5154cb0db2c3741ad1cce0416045be422ad4de441b081", "docker.io/library/alpine@sha256:c58a2fce65cb3487f965d2fb08eec4843384dbe29264f427b665421db1aabef2", "quay.io/podman/alpine@sha256:3362f865019db5f14ac5154cb0db2c3741ad1cce0416045be422ad4de441b081", "quay.io/podman/alpine@sha256:c58a2fce65cb3487f965d2fb08eec4843384dbe29264f427b665421db1aabef2", "quay.io/podman/alpine@sha256:3362f865019db5f14ac5154cb0db2c3741ad1cce0416045be422ad4de441b081", "quay.io/podman/alpine@sha256:c58a2fce65cb3487f965d2fb08eec4843384dbe29264f427b665421db1aabef2"], "RepoTags": ["docker.io/library/alpine:3.15", "quay.io/podman/alpine:3.15", "quay.io/podman/alpine:3.15"], "RootFS": {"Layers": ["sha256:579b..."], "Type": "layers"}, "Size": 11745350, "User": "", "Version": "20.10.23", "VirtualSize": 11745350}]

Key

Description

images

list / elements=string

info from all or specified images

Returned: always

Sample: [{"Annotations": {}, "Architecture": "amd64", "Author": "", "Comment": "", "Config": {"Cmd": ["/bin/sh"], "Env": ["PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"]}, "Created": "2023-06-14T20:42:13.993588153Z", "Digest": "sha256:3362f865019db5f14ac5154cb0db2c3741ad1cce0416045be422ad4de441b081", "GraphDriver": {"Data": {"UpperDir": "/home/podman/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/579b.../diff", "WorkDir": "/home/podman/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/579b.../work"}, "Name": "overlay"}, "History": [{"created": "2023-06-14T20:42:13.893052319Z", "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:234234234 in / "}, {"created": "2023-06-14T20:42:13.993588153Z", "created_by": "/bin/sh -c #(nop) CMD [\"/bin/sh\"]", "empty_layer": true}], "Id": "029bed813f07be84fae0344cbf8076ced5ea3c929d5f064ba617ac7d8c610a4b", "Labels": null, "ManifestType": "application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json", "NamesHistory": ["quay.io/podman/alpine:3.15", "quay.io/podman/alpine:3.15", "docker.io/library/alpine:3.15"], "Os": "linux", "Parent": "", "RepoDigests": ["docker.io/library/alpine@sha256:3362f865019db5f14ac5154cb0db2c3741ad1cce0416045be422ad4de441b081", "docker.io/library/alpine@sha256:c58a2fce65cb3487f965d2fb08eec4843384dbe29264f427b665421db1aabef2", "quay.io/podman/alpine@sha256:3362f865019db5f14ac5154cb0db2c3741ad1cce0416045be422ad4de441b081", "quay.io/podman/alpine@sha256:c58a2fce65cb3487f965d2fb08eec4843384dbe29264f427b665421db1aabef2", "quay.io/podman/alpine@sha256:3362f865019db5f14ac5154cb0db2c3741ad1cce0416045be422ad4de441b081", "quay.io/podman/alpine@sha256:c58a2fce65cb3487f965d2fb08eec4843384dbe29264f427b665421db1aabef2"], "RepoTags": ["docker.io/library/alpine:3.15", "quay.io/podman/alpine:3.15", "quay.io/podman/alpine:3.15"], "RootFS": {"Layers": ["sha256:579b..."], "Type": "layers"}, "Size": 11745350, "User": "", "Version": "20.10.23", "VirtualSize": 11745350}]

Authors

Sam Doran (@samdoran)

Collection links

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/containers/podman/podman_image_info_module.html