docker-image-save(1)

docker-image-save1

Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to stdout by default)

Usage

docker image save [OPTIONS] IMAGE [IMAGE ...]

Overview

Produces a tarred repository to the standard output stream. Contains all parent layers, and all tags + versions, or specified repo:tag.

Stream to a file instead of STDOUT by using -o.

Examples

Save all fedora repository images to a fedora-all.tar and save the latest fedora image to a fedora-latest.tar:

$ docker image save fedora > fedora-all.tar
$ docker image save --output=fedora-latest.tar fedora:latest
$ ls -sh fedora-all.tar
721M fedora-all.tar
$ ls -sh fedora-latest.tar
367M fedora-latest.tar

Options

-o, --output=""
Write to a file, instead of STDOUT

--platform=[]
Save only the given platform(s). Formatted as a comma-separated list of "os[/arch[/variant]]" (e.g., "linux/amd64,linux/arm64/v8")

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

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