NAME

       buildah-containers - List the working containers and their base images.

SYNOPSIS

       buildah containers [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Lists  containers  which  appear to be Buildah working containers, their names and IDs, and the names and
       IDs of the images from which they were initialized.

OPTIONS

       --all, -a

       List information about all containers, including those which were not created by and are not  being  used
       by Buildah.  Containers created by Buildah are denoted with an '*' in the 'BUILDER' column.

       --filter, -f

       Filter output based on conditions provided.

       Valid filters are listed below:

       ┌──────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┐
       │ Filter   │ Description                           │
       ├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ id       │ [ID] Container's ID                   │
       ├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ name     │ [Name] Container's name               │
       ├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ ancestor │ [ImageName]  Image or descendant used │
       │          │ to create container                   │
       └──────────┴───────────────────────────────────────┘

       --format

       Pretty-print containers using a Go template.

       Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below:

       ┌────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┐
       │ Placeholder    │ Description                           │
       ├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ .ContainerID   │ Container ID                          │
       ├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ .Builder       │ Whether  container  was  created   by │
       │                │ buildah                               │
       ├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ .ImageID       │ Image ID                              │
       ├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ .ImageName     │ Image name                            │
       ├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ .ContainerName │ Container name                        │
       └────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────┘

       --json

       Output in JSON format.

       --noheading, -n

       Omit the table headings from the listing of containers.

       --notruncate

       Do not truncate IDs and image names in the output.

       --quiet, -q

       Displays only the container IDs.

EXAMPLE

       buildah containers

       CONTAINER ID  BUILDER  IMAGE ID     IMAGE NAME                       CONTAINER NAME
       ccf84de04b80     *     53ce4390f2ad registry.access.redhat.com/ub... ubi8-working-container
       45be1d806fc5     *     16ea53ea7c65 docker.io/library/busybox:latest busybox-working-container

       buildah containers --quiet

       ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8
       45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07

       buildah containers -q --noheading --notruncate

       ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8
       45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07

       buildah containers --json

       [
           {
               "id": "ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8",
               "builder": true,
               "imageid": "53ce4390f2adb1681eb1a90ec8b48c49c015e0a8d336c197637e7f65e365fa9e",
               "imagename": "registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8:latest",
               "containername": "ubi8-working-container"
           },
           {
               "id": "45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07",
               "builder": true,
               "imageid": "16ea53ea7c652456803632d67517b78a4f9075a10bfdc4fc6b7b4cbf2bc98497",
               "imagename": "docker.io/library/busybox:latest",
               "containername": "busybox-working-container"
           }
       ]

       buildah containers --format "{{.ContainerID}} {{.ContainerName}}"

       ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8   ubi8-working-container
       45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07   busybox-working-container

       buildah containers --format "Container ID: {{.ContainerID}}"

       Container   ID:   ccf84de04b80c309ce6586997c79a769033dc4129db903c1882bc24a058438b8
       Container   ID:   45be1d806fc533fcfc2beee77e424d87e5990d3ce9214d6b374677d6630bba07

       buildah containers --filter ancestor=ubuntu

       CONTAINER ID  BUILDER  IMAGE ID     IMAGE NAME                       CONTAINER NAME
       fbfd3505376e     *     0ff04b2e7b63 docker.io/library/ubuntu:latest  ubuntu-working-container

SEE ALSO

       buildah(1)

buildah                                            March 2017                              buildah-containers(1)