podman-version(1) General Commands Manual podman-version(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

podman-version - Display the Podman version information

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**podman version** \[*options*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Shows the following information: Remote API Version, Version, Go Version, Git Commit, Build Time, OS, and Architecture.

# [OPTIONS](#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](#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](#SEE_ALSO)

[**podman(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.1/podman.1)

# [HISTORY](#HISTORY)

November 2018, Added --format flag by Tomas Tomecek ttomecek@redhat.com ⟨mailto:ttomecek@redhat.com⟩ July 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com ⟨mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩

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Document: podman-version(1) from podman-doc-6.1 6.1.3-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/containers/podman