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podman-pod-inspect(1) General Commands Manual podman-pod-inspect(1) NAME podman-pod-inspect - Display information describing a pod SYNOPSIS podman pod inspect [options] pod ... DESCRIPTION Displays configuration and state information about a given pod. It also displays information about containers that belong to the pod. OPTIONS --format, -f=format Change the default output format. This can be of a supported type like 'json' or a Go template. Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below: +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | Placeholder | Description | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .BlkioDeviceReadBps | Block I/O Device Read, in | | | bytes/sec | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .BlkioDeviceWriteBps | Block I/O Device Read, in | | | bytes/sec | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .BlkioWeight | Block I/O Weight | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .BlkioWeightDevice | Block I/O Device Weight | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CgroupParent | Pod cgroup parent | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CgroupPath | Pod cgroup path | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .Containers | Pod containers | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CPUPeriod | CPU period | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CPUQuota | CPU quota | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CPUSetCPUs | CPU Set CPUs | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CPUSetMems | CPU Set Mems | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CPUShares | CPU Shares | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CreateCgroup | Whether cgroup was created | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CreateCommand | Create command | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .Created ... | Time when the pod was created | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .CreateInfra | Whether infrastructure created | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .Devices | Devices | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .ExitPolicy | Exit policy | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .Hostname | Pod hostname | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .ID | Pod ID | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .InfraConfig ... | Infra config (contains further | | | fields) | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .InfraContainerID | Pod infrastructure ID | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .InspectPodData ... | Nested structure, for experts | | | only | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .Labels ... | Pod labels | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .LockNumber | Number of the pod's Libpod | | | lock | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .MemoryLimit | Memory limit, bytes | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .MemorySwap | Memory swap limit, in bytes | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .Mounts | Mounts | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .Name | Pod name | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .Namespace | Namespace | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .NumContainers | Number of containers in the | | | pod | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .RestartPolicy | Restart policy of the pod | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .SecurityOpts | Security options | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .SharedNamespaces | Pod shared namespaces | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .State | Pod state | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ | .VolumesFrom | Volumes from | +----------------------+--------------------------------+ --latest, -l Instead of providing the pod name or ID, use the last created pod. Note: the last started pod can be from other users of Podman on the host machine. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines) EXAMPLE Inspect specified pod: $ podman pod inspect foobar [ { "Id": "3513ca70583dd7ef2bac83331350f6b6c47d7b4e526c908e49d89ebf720e4693", "Name": "foobar", "Labels": {}, "CgroupParent": "/libpod_parent", "CreateCgroup": true, "Created": "2018-08-08T11:15:18.823115347-05:00" "State": "created", "Hostname": "", "SharedNamespaces": [ "uts", "ipc", "net" ] "CreateInfra": false, "InfraContainerID": "1020dd70583dd7ff2bac83331350f6b6e007de0d026c908e49d89ebf891d4699" "CgroupPath": "" "Containers": [ { "id": "d53f8bf1e9730281264aac6e6586e327429f62c704abea4b6afb5d8a2b2c9f2c", "state": "configured" } ] } ] Show only pod name and state: $ podman pod inspect --format "{{.Name}}\t{{.State}}" mypod mypod Running Show pod ID and number of containers: $ podman pod inspect mypod --format "Pod {{.Name}} ({{.ID}}) has {{.NumContainers}} containers" Pod mypod (605f5f776e101a6e0ad11ea802cae25eabf299da77122f2963fa65dc6ccf6717) has 2 containers Show pod creation time and shared namespaces: $ podman pod inspect mypod --format "Created: {{.Created}}\nShared: {{.SharedNamespaces}}" Created: 2025-08-14 21:16:05.861363099 +0000 UTC Shared: [net uts ipc] Show pod resource limits: $ podman pod inspect --format "Memory: {{.MemoryLimit}}, CPU Period: {{.CPUPeriod}}, CPU Quota: {{.CPUQuota}}" mypod Memory: 1073741824, CPU Period: 100000, CPU Quota: 50000 Show container IDs within the pod: $ podman pod inspect --format "{{range .Containers}}{{.Id}}: {{.State}} {{end}}" mypod e907f7902decca9d6b600b4d3cca9541d9b89dd726b2af7ad2eba05d2a97083f: running c5a53050a31aed71c55cb6a31b9564c69a1009f77750f3f0e8093bd98fcd8918: running SEE ALSO podman(1), podman-pod(1), podman-inspect(1) HISTORY August 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com <mailto:bbaude@redhat.com> podman-pod-inspect(1)
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