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docker version [Options]

The version command prints the current version number for all independently versioned Docker components.

The default output renders all version information divided into two sections; the "Client" section contains information about the Docker CLI and client components, and the "Server" section contains information about the Docker Engine and components used by the Engine, such as the "Containerd" and "Runc" OCI Runtimes.

The information shown may differ depending on how you installed Docker and what components are in use. The following example shows the output on a macOS machine running Docker Desktop:

$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           28.5.1
 API version:       1.51
 Go version:        go1.24.8
 Git commit:        e180ab8
 Built:             Wed Oct  8 12:16:17 2025
 OS/Arch:           darwin/arm64
 Context:           desktop-linux

Server: Docker Desktop 4.49.0 (12345)
 Engine:
  Version:          28.5.1
  API version:      1.51 (minimum version 1.24)
  Go version:       go1.24.8
  Git commit:       f8215cc
  Built:            Wed Oct  8 12:18:25 2025
  OS/Arch:          linux/arm64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.7.27
  GitCommit:        05044ec0a9a75232cad458027ca83437aae3f4da
 runc:
  Version:          1.2.5
  GitCommit:        v1.2.5-0-g59923ef
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

Get server version:

$ docker version --format '{{.Server.Version}}'
28.5.1

Dump raw data:

To view all available fields, you can use the format {{json .}}.

$ docker version --format '{{json .}}'
{"Client":"Version":"28.5.1","ApiVersion":"1.51", ...}

-f, --format="" Format output using a custom template: 'json':             Print in JSON format 'TEMPLATE':         Print output using the given Go template. Refer to https://docs.docker.com/go/formatting/ for more information about formatting output with templates

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