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

Note

This module is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.16.2).

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

  • 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}]

Authors

  • Sam Doran (@samdoran)