NAME

podman-diff - Inspect changes on a container or image's filesystem
 

SYNOPSIS

podman diff [options] container|image [container|image]
 

DESCRIPTION

Displays changes on a container or image's filesystem. The container or image will be 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 diff is json.
 

--latest, -l

Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. If you use methods other than Podman to run containers such as CRI-O, the last started container could be from either of those methods. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
 

EXAMPLE

 
$ podman diff container1
A /myscript.sh
 
 
$ podman diff --format json myimage
{
  "changed": [
    "/usr",
    "/usr/local",
    "/usr/local/bin"
  ],
  "added": [
    "/usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh"
  ]
}
 
 
$ podman diff container1 image1
A /test
 

SEE ALSO

podman(1), podman-container-diff(1), podman-image-diff(1)
 

HISTORY

August 2017, Originally compiled by Ryan Cole [email protected] ⟨mailto:[email protected]

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