Crane

2025-09-20

crane is a tool for interacting with remote container images and registries.

Website

https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/tree/main/cmd/crane

Tldr

~ tldr crane

crane

Container images managing tool.
Some subcommands such as `pull`, `push`, `copy`, etc. have their own usage documentation.
More information: <https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd/crane/doc/crane.md/>.

- Execute a `crane` subcommand:
    crane subcommand

- Allow pushing non-distributable (foreign) layers:
    crane --allow-nondistributable-artifacts subcommand

- Allow image references to be fetched without TLS:
    crane --insecure subcommand

- Specify the platform in the form `os/arch/variant:osversion` (e.g. `linux/amd64`). (default all):
    crane --platform platform subcommand

- Enable debug logs for a subcommand:
    crane [-v|--verbose] subcommand

- Display help for a subcommand:
    crane [-h|--help] subcommand