docker image history
| Description | Show the history of an image |
|---|---|
| Usage | docker image history [OPTIONS] IMAGE |
| Aliases | docker history |
Description
Show the history of an image
Options
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
--format | Format output using a custom template: 'table': Print output in table format with column headers (default) 'table TEMPLATE': Print output in table format using the given Go template 'json': Print in JSON format 'TEMPLATE': Print output using the given Go template. Refer to https://docs.docker.com/go/formatting/ for more information about formatting output with templates | |
-H, --human | true | Print sizes and dates in human readable format |
--no-trunc | Don't truncate output | |
--platform | API 1.48+ Show history for the given platform. Formatted as os[/arch[/variant]] (e.g., linux/amd64) | |
-q, --quiet | Only show image IDs |
Examples
To see how the docker:latest image was built:
$ docker history docker IMAGE CREATED CREATED BY SIZE COMMENT 3e23a5875458 8 days ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 0 B 8578938dd170 8 days ago /bin/sh -c dpkg-reconfigure locales && loc 1.245 MB be51b77efb42 8 days ago /bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install 338.3 MB 4b137612be55 6 weeks ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD jessie.tar.xz in / 121 MB 750d58736b4b 6 weeks ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Tianon Gravi <ad 0 B 511136ea3c5a 9 months ago 0 B Imported from - To see how the docker:apache image was added to a container's base image:
$ docker history docker:scm IMAGE CREATED CREATED BY SIZE COMMENT 2ac9d1098bf1 3 months ago /bin/bash 241.4 MB Added Apache to Fedora base image 88b42ffd1f7c 5 months ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:1fd8d7f9f6557cafc7 373.7 MB c69cab00d6ef 5 months ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Lokesh Mandvekar 0 B 511136ea3c5a 19 months ago 0 B Imported from - Format the output (--format)
The formatting option (--format) will pretty-prints history output using a Go template.
Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below:
| Placeholder | Description |
|---|---|
.ID | Image ID |
.CreatedSince | Elapsed time since the image was created if --human=true, otherwise timestamp of when image was created |
.CreatedAt | Timestamp of when image was created |
.CreatedBy | Command that was used to create the image |
.Size | Image disk size |
.Comment | Comment for image |
When using the --format option, the history command either outputs the data exactly as the template declares or, when using the table directive, includes column headers as well.
The following example uses a template without headers and outputs the ID and CreatedSince entries separated by a colon (:) for the busybox image:
$ docker history --format "{{.ID}}: {{.CreatedSince}}" busybox f6e427c148a7: 4 weeks ago <missing>: 4 weeks ago Show history for a specific platform (--platform)
The --platform option allows you to specify which platform variant to show history for if multiple platforms are present. By default, docker history shows the history for the daemon's native platform or if not present, the first available platform.
If the local image store has multiple platform variants of an image, the --platform option selects which variant to show the history for. An error is produced if the given platform is not present in the local image cache.
The platform option takes the os[/arch[/variant]] format; for example, linux/amd64 or linux/arm64/v8. Architecture and variant are optional, and if omitted falls back to the daemon's defaults.
The following example pulls the RISC-V variant of the alpine:latest image and shows its history.
$ docker image pull --quiet --platform=linux/riscv64 alpine docker.io/library/alpine:latest $ docker image history --platform=linux/s390x alpine IMAGE CREATED CREATED BY SIZE COMMENT beefdbd8a1da 3 weeks ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) CMD ["/bin/sh"] 0B <missing> 3 weeks ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:ba2637314e600db5a… 8.46MB The following example attempts to show the history for a platform variant of alpine:latest that doesn't exist in the local image store, resulting in an error.
$ docker image ls --tree IMAGE ID DISK USAGE CONTENT SIZE IN USE alpine:latest beefdbd8a1da 10.6MB 3.37MB ├─ linux/riscv64 80cde017a105 10.6MB 3.37MB ├─ linux/amd64 33735bd63cf8 0B 0B ├─ linux/arm/v6 50f635c8b04d 0B 0B ├─ linux/arm/v7 f2f82d424957 0B 0B ├─ linux/arm64/v8 9cee2b382fe2 0B 0B ├─ linux/386 b3e87f642f5c 0B 0B ├─ linux/ppc64le c7a6800e3dc5 0B 0B └─ linux/s390x 2b5b26e09ca2 0B 0B $ docker image history --platform=linux/s390x alpine Error response from daemon: image with reference alpine:latest was found but does not match the specified platform: wanted linux/s390x