buildah-containers(1) General Commands Manual buildah-containers(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

buildah-containers - List the working containers and their base images.

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**buildah containers** \[*options*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Lists containers which appear to be Buildah working containers, their names and IDs, and the names and IDs of the images from which they were initialized.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

**--all**, **-a**

List information about all containers, including those which were not created by and are not being used by Buildah. Containers created by Buildah are denoted with an '\*' in the 'BUILDER' column.

**--filter**, **-f**

Filter output based on conditions provided.

Valid filters are listed below:

**Filter** **Description** id \[ID] Container's ID name \[Name] Container's name ancestor \[ImageName] Image or descendant used to create container

**--format**

Pretty-print containers using a Go template.

Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below:

**Placeholder** **Description** .ContainerID Container ID .Builder Whether container was created by buildah .ImageID Image ID .ImageName Image name .ContainerName Container name

**--json**

Output in JSON format.

**--noheading**, **-n**

Omit the table headings from the listing of containers.

**--notruncate**

Do not truncate IDs and image names in the output.

**--quiet**, **-q**

Displays only the container IDs.

# [EXAMPLE](#EXAMPLE)

buildah containers

```
CONTAINER ID  BUILDER  IMAGE ID     IMAGE NAME                       CONTAINER NAME
ccf84de04b80     *     53ce4390f2ad registry.access.redhat.com/ub... ubi8-working-container
45be1d806fc5     *     16ea53ea7c65 docker.io/library/busybox:latest busybox-working-container
```

buildah containers --quiet

```
ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8
45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07
```

buildah containers -q --noheading --notruncate

```
ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8
45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07
```

buildah containers --json

```
[


    {


        "id": "ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8",


        "builder": true,


        "imageid": "53ce4390f2adb1681eb1a90ec8b48c49c015e0a8d336c197637e7f65e365fa9e",


        "imagename": "registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8:latest",


        "containername": "ubi8-working-container"


    },


    {


        "id": "45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07",


        "builder": true,


        "imageid": "16ea53ea7c652456803632d67517b78a4f9075a10bfdc4fc6b7b4cbf2bc98497",


        "imagename": "docker.io/library/busybox:latest",


        "containername": "busybox-working-container"


    }
]
```

buildah containers --format "{{.ContainerID}} {{.ContainerName}}"

```
ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8   ubi8-working-container
45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07   busybox-working-container
```

buildah containers --format "Container ID: {{.ContainerID}}"

```
Container   ID:   ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8
Container   ID:   45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07
```

buildah containers --filter ancestor=ubuntu

```
CONTAINER ID  BUILDER  IMAGE ID     IMAGE NAME                       CONTAINER NAME
fbfd3505376e     *     0ff04b2e7b63 docker.io/library/ubuntu:latest  ubuntu-working-container
```

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[buildah(1)](/man/enterprise-packages/buildah/buildah.1)

March 2017 buildah

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Document: buildah-containers(1) from buildah 1.45.2-r1 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/containers/buildah