This make other scripts can use the CLI output directly without writing additional format parser for udocker.
like podman images --format json can give json output:
[
{
"Id": "0fd2ff36baf788cdf00a402ac50865af6dfcb73a9e7ff264e6a2b7334b9e5711",
"ParentId": "",
"RepoTags": null,
"RepoDigests": [
"ghcr.io/prefix-dev/pixi@sha256:3b277f42e137adb3421b61a4b169eef2141b126f57db61eb368098ef0aab39ed",
"ghcr.io/prefix-dev/pixi@sha256:d2b1b423bd60adb9ce8b739ba065409ac0024611fe8439944111a5c7afaaadea"
],
"Size": 473960231,
"SharedSize": 0,
"VirtualSize": 473960231,
"Labels": {
"maintainer": "NVIDIA CORPORATION \u003ccudatools@nvidia.com\u003e",
"org.opencontainers.image.created": "2025-10-07T11:36:49.254Z",
"org.opencontainers.image.description": "A docker image for the pixi package manager 🐳 📦",
"org.opencontainers.image.licenses": "BSD-3-Clause",
"org.opencontainers.image.ref.name": "ubuntu",
"org.opencontainers.image.revision": "9cf19c9fb7645bc73229d764104825fb854c5aa0",
"org.opencontainers.image.source": "https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi-docker",
"org.opencontainers.image.title": "pixi-docker",
"org.opencontainers.image.url": "https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi-docker",
"org.opencontainers.image.version": "noble-cuda-13.0.0"
},
"Containers": 0,
"Digest": "sha256:d2b1b423bd60adb9ce8b739ba065409ac0024611fe8439944111a5c7afaaadea",
"History": [
"ghcr.io/prefix-dev/pixi:0.56.0-noble-cuda-13.0.0"
],
"Names": [
"ghcr.io/prefix-dev/pixi:0.56.0-noble-cuda-13.0.0"
],
"Created": 1759837033,
"CreatedAt": "2025-10-07T11:37:13Z"
}
]
This make other scripts can use the CLI output directly without writing additional format parser for udocker.
like
podman images --format jsoncan give json output:[ { "Id": "0fd2ff36baf788cdf00a402ac50865af6dfcb73a9e7ff264e6a2b7334b9e5711", "ParentId": "", "RepoTags": null, "RepoDigests": [ "ghcr.io/prefix-dev/pixi@sha256:3b277f42e137adb3421b61a4b169eef2141b126f57db61eb368098ef0aab39ed", "ghcr.io/prefix-dev/pixi@sha256:d2b1b423bd60adb9ce8b739ba065409ac0024611fe8439944111a5c7afaaadea" ], "Size": 473960231, "SharedSize": 0, "VirtualSize": 473960231, "Labels": { "maintainer": "NVIDIA CORPORATION \u003ccudatools@nvidia.com\u003e", "org.opencontainers.image.created": "2025-10-07T11:36:49.254Z", "org.opencontainers.image.description": "A docker image for the pixi package manager 🐳 📦", "org.opencontainers.image.licenses": "BSD-3-Clause", "org.opencontainers.image.ref.name": "ubuntu", "org.opencontainers.image.revision": "9cf19c9fb7645bc73229d764104825fb854c5aa0", "org.opencontainers.image.source": "https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi-docker", "org.opencontainers.image.title": "pixi-docker", "org.opencontainers.image.url": "https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi-docker", "org.opencontainers.image.version": "noble-cuda-13.0.0" }, "Containers": 0, "Digest": "sha256:d2b1b423bd60adb9ce8b739ba065409ac0024611fe8439944111a5c7afaaadea", "History": [ "ghcr.io/prefix-dev/pixi:0.56.0-noble-cuda-13.0.0" ], "Names": [ "ghcr.io/prefix-dev/pixi:0.56.0-noble-cuda-13.0.0" ], "Created": 1759837033, "CreatedAt": "2025-10-07T11:37:13Z" } ]