Get List of Docker Images

Docker images are used to create containers. An image is downloaded and stored locally when a container is created using a specific Docker image. This tutorial demonstrates how to get a list of Docker images.

Get list of images

To get a list of images, use docker images command or docker image command with ls argument:

docker images

docker image ls

Output example:

REPOSITORY    TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED         SIZE
ubuntu        latest    216c552ea5ba   2 weeks ago     77.8MB
ubuntu        focal     817578334b4d   2 weeks ago     72.8MB
hello-world   latest    feb5d9fea6a5   13 months ago   13.3kB

Get list of images by repository and tag

The docker images and docker image ls command accepts an optional argument that allows to get a list of images by repository and tag.

For example, to list all images by ubuntu repository, you can use:

docker images ubuntu

docker image ls ubuntu

Output example:

REPOSITORY   TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED       SIZE
ubuntu       latest    216c552ea5ba   2 weeks ago   77.8MB
ubuntu       focal     817578334b4d   2 weeks ago   72.8MB

For example, to list all images by ubuntu repository with tag latest, you can use:

docker images ubuntu:latest

docker image ls ubuntu:latest

Output example:

REPOSITORY   TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED       SIZE
ubuntu       latest    216c552ea5ba   2 weeks ago   77.8MB

Get list of images with full length IDs

By default, image IDs are truncated. The --no-trunc option can be used to show not truncated IDs:

docker images --no-trunc

docker image ls --no-trunc

Output example:

REPOSITORY    TAG       IMAGE ID                                                                  CREATED         SIZE
ubuntu        latest    sha256:216c552ea5ba7b0e3f6e33624e129981c39996021403518019d19b8843c27cbc   2 weeks ago     77.8MB
ubuntu        focal     sha256:817578334b4dd5e2b0654610e895e08e1bea996c58119bb9c7e3bd9e74dd8936   2 weeks ago     72.8MB
hello-world   latest    sha256:feb5d9fea6a5e9606aa995e879d862b825965ba48de054caab5ef356dc6b3412   13 months ago   13.3kB