Images from non-Docker runtimes cannot be inspected
Dive cannot inspect images from containerd, nerdctl, crictl, Podman, or Apple Container without Docker.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 7 December 2018 · last reported 6 October 2025
What's going wrong
Engineers running containerd, nerdctl, crictl, Podman, or Apple Container report that the tool needs a Docker client or daemon and fails to find their images.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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- Related problems.
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