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podman-import

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
--arch
--change, -c=instruction
--help, -h
--message, -m=message
--os
--quiet, -q
--variant
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY

NAME

podman-import - Import a tarball and save it as a filesystem image

SYNOPSIS

podman import [ options ] path [ reference ]

podman image import [ options ] path [ reference ]

DESCRIPTION

podman import imports a tarball (possibly compressed using Gzip, Bzip2, XZ or Zstd) and saves it as a filesystem image. Remote tarballs can be specified using a URL. Various image instructions can be configured with the --change flag and a commit message can be set using the --message flag. reference , if present, is a tag to assign to the image. podman import is used for importing from the archive generated by podman export , that includes the container’s filesystem. To import the archive of image layers created by podman save , use podman load . Note: : is a restricted character and cannot be part of the file name.

OPTIONS

--arch

Set architecture of the imported image.

--change, -c=instruction

Apply the following possible instructions to the created image: CMD | ENTRYPOINT | ENV | EXPOSE | LABEL | STOPSIGNAL | USER | VOLUME | WORKDIR

Can be set multiple times

--help, -h

Print usage statement

--message, -m=message

Set commit message for imported image

--os

Set OS of the imported image.

--quiet, -q

Shows progress on the import

--variant

Set variant of the imported image.

EXAMPLES

Import the selected tarball into new image, specifying the CMD, ENTRYPOINT and LABEL:

$ podman import --change CMD=/bin/bash --change ENTRYPOINT=/bin/sh --change LABEL=blue=image ctr.tar image-imported
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:c16a6d30f3782288ec4e7521c754acc29d37155629cb39149756f486dae2d4cd
448 B / 448 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3

Import the selected tarball into new image, specifying the CMD, ENTRYPOINT and LABEL:

$ podman import --change ’ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh","-c","test-image"]’ --change LABEL=blue=image test-image.tar image-imported
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob e3b0c44298fc skipped: already exists
Copying config 1105523502 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
110552350206337183ceadc0bdd646dc356e06514c548b69a8917b4182414b

Import new tagged image from stdin in quiet mode:

$ cat ctr.tar | podman -q import --message "importing the ctr.tar file" - image-imported
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3

Import an image from stdin:

$ cat ctr.tar | podman import -
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:d61387b4d5edf65edee5353e2340783703074ffeaaac529cde97a8357eea7645
378 B / 378 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3

Import named image from tarball via a URL:

$ podman import http://example.com/ctr.tar url-image
Downloading from "http://example.com/ctr.tar"
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:5813fe8a3b18696089fd09957a12e88bda43dc1745b5240879ffffe93240d29a
419 B / 419 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3

SEE ALSO

podman(1) , podman-export(1)

HISTORY

November 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com ⟨ mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩