NAME

podman-image-diff - Inspect changes on an image's filesystem

SYNOPSIS

podman image diff [options] image [image]

DESCRIPTION

Displays changes on an image's filesystem. The image is compared to its parent layer or the second argument when given.

The output is prefixed with the following symbols:

Symbol	Description
A	A file or directory was added.
D	A file or directory was deleted.
C	A file or directory was changed.

OPTIONS

--format

Alter the output into a different format. The only valid format for podman image diff is json.

EXAMPLE

Display image differences from images parent layer:

$ podman image diff redis:old
C /usr
C /usr/local
C /usr/local/bin
A /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh

Display image differences between two different images in JSON format:

$ podman image diff --format json redis:old redis:alpine
{


  "changed": [


    "/usr",


    "/usr/local",


    "/usr/local/bin"


  ],


  "added": [


    "/usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh"


  ]
}

HISTORY

August 2017, Originally compiled by Ryan Cole rycole@redhat.com ⟨mailto:rycole@redhat.com⟩