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Joan
Joan

Reputation: 4320

Get image name within container

I'm trying to get the name of the container image from within the container.

I tried to look around the Downward APIs, but it seems that it's not possible:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/downward-api-volume-expose-pod-information/

For now my workaround is:

      env:
        - name: IMAGE
          value: "myimage:latest"

Is there maybe a better way?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2846

Answers (1)

Oswin Noetzelmann
Oswin Noetzelmann

Reputation: 9555

Your solution is probably OK, assuming you build your containers with CI/CD. Please see this answer about how to access the kubernetes API from within a cluster as an alternative. Here's the link to POD API docs which should contain the image information.

Upvotes: 1

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