skopeo

Inspect and transfer container images between registries.

Ubuntu Debian Arch Alpine Fedora CentOS RHEL SUSE macOS

Verified: 2026-05-10

Syntax

$skopeo [COMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Examples

$skopeo inspect docker://registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest

$skopeo copy docker://quay.io/fedora/fedora:latest dir:/tmp/fedora-image

Typical use cases

Standard usage

skopeo --help

Note Useful for registry automation and security workflows. Works without Docker daemon.

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