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podman-load

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
--help, -h
--input, -i=input
--quiet, -q
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY

NAME

podman-load - Load image(s) from a tar archive into container storage

SYNOPSIS

podman load [ options ]

podman image load [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

podman load loads an image from either an oci-archive or a docker-archive stored on the local machine into container storage. podman load reads from stdin by default or a file if the input option is set. podman load is used for loading from the archive generated by podman save , that includes the image parent layers. To load the archive of container’s filesystem created by podman export , use podman import .

The local client further supports loading an oci-dir or a docker-dir as created with podman save (1).

The quiet option suppresses the progress output when set. Note: : is a restricted character and cannot be part of the file name.

podman [GLOBAL OPTIONS]

podman load [GLOBAL OPTIONS]

podman load [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS

--help, -h

Print usage statement

--input, -i=input

Load the specified input file instead of from stdin. The file can be on the local file system or on a server (e.g., https://server.com/archive.tar). Also supports loading in compressed files.

The remote client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines, requires the use of this option.

NOTE: Use the environment variable TMPDIR to change the temporary storage location of container images. Podman defaults to use /var/tmp .

--quiet, -q

Suppress the progress output

EXAMPLES

Create an image from a compressed tar file, without showing progress.

$ podman load --quiet -i fedora.tar.gz

Create an image from the archive.tar file pulled from a URL, without showing progress.

$ podman load -q -i https://server.com/archive.tar

Create an image from stdin using bash redirection from a tar file.

$ podman load < fedora.tar
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:5bef08742407efd622d243692b79ba0055383bbce12900324f75e56f589aedb0
0 B / 4.03 MB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
Copying config sha256:7328f6f8b41890597575cbaadc884e7386ae0acc53b747401ebce5cf0d624560
0 B / 1.48 KB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
Loaded image: registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest

Create an image from stdin using a pipe.

$ cat fedora.tar | podman load
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:5bef08742407efd622d243692b79ba0055383bbce12900324f75e56f589aedb0
0 B / 4.03 MB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
Copying config sha256:7328f6f8b41890597575cbaadc884e7386ae0acc53b747401ebce5cf0d624560
0 B / 1.48 KB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
Loaded image: registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest

SEE ALSO

podman(1) , podman-save(1)

HISTORY

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