
This commit implements automatic artifact fallback for the podman inspect command as requested in GitHub issue #27075. Changes made: - Add ArtifactType constant to cmd/podman/common/inspect.go - Update AutocompleteInspectType to include artifact type in completions - Add artifact case to main inspect switch statement for explicit --type artifact - Implement artifact fallback in inspectAll function for automatic detection - Update shell completion to recognize artifacts in getEntityType function - Update command help text, usage, and examples to include artifacts - Update podman-inspect.1.md man page with artifact documentation - Add comprehensive e2e tests for artifact inspect functionality The inspect command now automatically falls back to artifact inspection when no container, image, volume, network, or pod matches the specified name. Users can also explicitly use --type artifact for direct artifact inspection. This maintains backward compatibility while extending functionality to support the artifact object type seamlessly. Examples: podman inspect myartifact # Auto-detects artifact podman inspect --type artifact myartifact # Explicit artifact type podman inspect --format '{{.Name}}' myartifact # Format support Fixes: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/27075 Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
Podman Documentation
The online man pages and other documents regarding Podman can be found at Read The Docs. The man pages can be found under the Commands link on that page.
Build the Docs
Directory Structure
Directory | |
---|---|
Markdown source for man pages | docs/source/markdown/ |
man pages aliases as .so files | docs/source/markdown/links/ |
target for output | docs/build |
man pages | docs/build/man |
remote linux man pages | docs/build/remote/linux |
remote darwin man pages | docs/build/remote/darwin |
remote windows html pages | docs/build/remote/windows |
Support files
docs/remote-docs.sh | Read the docs/source/markdown files and format for each platform |
docs/links-to-html.lua | pandoc filter to do aliases for html files |
docs/use-pagetitle.lua | pandoc filter to set html document title |
Manpage Syntax
The syntax for the formatting of all man pages can be found here.
API Reference
The latest online documentation is
automatically generated by two cooperating automation systems based on committed upstream
source code. Firstly, the Cirrus-CI docs task builds
pkg/api/swagger.yaml
and uploads it to a public-facing location (Google Storage Bucket -
an online service for storing unstructured data). Second, Read The Docs
reacts to the github.com repository change, building the content for the libpod documentation
site. This site includes for the API section,
some javascript which consumes the uploaded swagger.yaml
file directly from the Google
Storage Bucket.
Since there are multiple systems and local cache is involved, it's possible that updates to documentation (especially the swagger/API docs) will lag by 10-or-so minutes. However, because the client (i.e. your web browser) is fetching content from multiple locations that do not share a common domain, accessing the API section may show a stack-trace similar to the following:
If reloading the page, or clearing your local cache does not fix the problem, it is
likely caused by broken metadata needed to protect clients from cross-site-scripting
style attacks. Please notify a maintainer
so they may investigate how/why the swagger.yaml
file's CORS-metadata is
incorrect, or the file isn't accessible for some other reason.
Local Testing
To build standard man pages, run make docs
. Results will be in docs/build/man
.
To build HTMLized man pages: Assuming that you have the dependencies installed, then also install (showing Fedora in the example):
$ sudo dnf install python3-sphinx python3-recommonmark
$ pip install sphinx-markdown-tables myst_parser
(The above dependencies are current as of 2022-09-15. If you experience problems, please see requirements.txt in this directory, it will almost certainly be more up-to-date than this README.)
After that completes, cd to the docs
directory in your Podman sandbox and then do make html
.
You can then preview the html files in docs/build/html
with:
python -m http.server 8000 --directory build/html
...and point your web browser at http://localhost:8000/