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buildah-images - List images in local storage.

buildah images [options] [image]

Displays locally stored images, their names, sizes, created date and their IDs. The created date is displayed in the time locale of the local machine.

--all, -a

Show all images, including intermediate images from a build.

--digests

Show the image digests.

--filter, -f=[]

Filter output based on conditions provided (default []).

Filters:

after,since=image
Filter on images created since the given image.

before=image
Filter on images created before the given image.

dangling=true|false
Show dangling images. An images is considered to be dangling if it has no associated names and tags.

id=id
Show image with this specific ID.

intermediate=true|false
Show intermediate images. An images is considered to be an indermediate image if it is dangling and has no children.

label=key[=value]
Filter by images labels key and/or value.

readonly=true|false
Show only read only images or Read/Write images. The default is to show both. Read/Only images can be configured by modifying the "additionalimagestores" in the /etc/containers/storage.conf file.

reference=reference
Show images matching the specified reference. Wildcards are supported (e.g., "reference=fedora:3").

--format="TEMPLATE"

Pretty-print images using a Go template.

Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below:

Placeholder Description
.Created Creation date in epoch time
.CreatedAt Creation date Pretty Formatted
.CreatedAtRaw Creation date in raw format
.Digest Image Digest
.ID Image ID
.Name Image Name
.ReadOnly Indicates if image came from a R/O store
.Size Image Size
.Tag Image Tag

--history

Display the image name history.

--json

Display the output in JSON format.

--no-trunc

Do not truncate output.

--noheading, -n

Omit the table headings from the listing of images.

--quiet, -q

Displays only the image IDs.

buildah images

buildah images fedora:latest

buildah images --json

buildah images --quiet

buildah images -q --noheading --no-trunc

buildah images --quiet fedora:latest

buildah images --filter dangling=true

buildah images --format "ImageID: {{.ID}}"

$ buildah images
REPOSITORY                        TAG        IMAGE ID       CREATED        SIZE
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8   latest     53ce4390f2ad   3 weeks ago    233 MB
docker.io/library/busybox         latest     16ea53ea7c65   3 weeks ago    1.46 MB
quay.io/libpod/testimage          20210610   9f9ec7f2fdef   4 months ago   7.99 MB

# buildah images -a
IMAGE NAME                                               IMAGE TAG            IMAGE ID             CREATED AT             SIZE
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8   latest     53ce4390f2ad   3 weeks ago    233 MB
<none>                                                   <none>               8c6e16890c2b         Jun 13, 2018 15:52     4.42 MB
localhost/test                                           latest               c0cfe75da054         Jun 13, 2018 15:52     4.42 MB

# buildah images --format '{{.ID}} {{.CreatedAtRaw}}'
3f53bb00af943dfdf815650be70c0fa7b426e56a66f5e3362b47a129d57d5991 2018-12-20 19:21:30.122610396 -0500 EST
8e09da8f6701d7cde1526d79e3123b0f1109b78d925dfe9f9bac6d59d702a390 2019-01-08 09:22:52.330623532 -0500 EST

# buildah images --format '{{.ID}} {{.Name}} {{.Digest}} {{.CreatedAt}} {{.Size}} {{.CreatedAtRaw}}'
3f53bb00af943dfdf815650be70c0fa7b426e56a66f5e3362b47a129d57d5991 docker.io/library/alpine sha256:3d2e482b82608d153a374df3357c0291589a61cc194ec4a9ca2381073a17f58e Dec 20, 2018 19:21 4.67 MB 2018-12-20 19:21:30.122610396 -0500 EST
8e09da8f6701d7cde1526d79e3123b0f1109b78d925dfe9f9bac6d59d702a390 <none> sha256:894532ec56e0205ce68ca7230b00c18aa3c8ee39fcdb310615c60e813057229c Jan 8, 2019 09:22 4.67 MB 2019-01-08 09:22:52.330623532 -0500 EST

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