podman-image-pull

Pull an image from Docker Hub

$ podman image pull [nginx]

$ podman image pull [nginx]:[1.25]

$ podman image pull [quay.io/podman/hello]

$ podman image pull --all-tags [alpine]

$ podman image pull --tls-verify=false [registry.local:5000/myimage]

$ podman image pull --creds [user]:[password] [registry.example.com/image]

$ podman image pull --arch [arm64] [nginx]

podman image pull [options] image

podman image pull downloads container images from registries to local storage. It supports multiple registries including Docker Hub, Quay.io, and private registries. Images are stored locally and can be used to create containers.
By default, Podman searches registries defined in registries.conf. Fully qualified image names (including registry) bypass registry search. The command supports pulling by tag, digest, or retrieving all tags at once.

--all-tags

Pull all tagged images from the repository

Override the architecture of the image to pull

Path to authentication file

Credentials for registry authentication

Skip image verification (default: true)

Override the OS of the image to pull

Specify platform (os/arch) to pull

Suppress output information

Require HTTPS and verify certificates (default: true)

Override the variant of the image

Large images may take significant time and bandwidth to download. Pulling from insecure registries requires explicit --tls-verify=false flag. Authentication credentials on command line may be visible in process listings; use --authfile for better security.

Podman was developed by Red Hat as a daemonless container engine, first released in 2018. The image pull command mirrors Docker's functionality while adding rootless container support. Podman has become a standard container tool in RHEL/Fedora ecosystems.

podman(1), podman-pull(1), podman-images(1), podman-run(1), docker-pull(1)