PODMAN useful commands

Products

• DX Operational Observability

Issue/Introduction

The following is a high-list of some podman commands used for troubleshooting

Environment

DX O2 OnPremise

Resolution

- podman system info
The podman system info command is used to display detailed information about the Podman host, including the Podman version, system storage statistics, configured container registries, and build information for the Podman installation itself. 

- podman version

- podman images
Displays locally stored images, their names, and their IDs

ie: podman images | grep 'dx-docker.packages.broadcom.com'

- tail -f /var/log/messages | grep podman
Display image import and activity with podman

- podman system prune -a

The podman system prune -a command is used in Podman to remove unused data from the local storage. This command is a powerful tool for reclaiming disk space by cleaning up various Podman-related artifacts.

Additional Information

Techdocs DX O2