docker-latest-load (1) Linux Manual Page

docker-load – Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN

Synopsis

docker load [–help] [-i|–input[=INPUT]] [-q|–quiet]

Description

Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream. Restores both images and tags. Write image names or IDs imported it standard output stream.

Options

–help
  Print usage statement

-i, –input=""
Read from a tar archive file, instead of STDIN. The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz.

-q, –quiet
Suppress the load progress bar but still outputs the imported images.

Examples

$ docker images

REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE

busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB

$ docker load –input fedora.tar

# […]

Loaded image: fedora:rawhide

# […]

Loaded image: fedora:20

# […]

$ docker images

REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE

busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB

fedora rawhide 0d20aec6529d 7 weeks ago 387 MB

fedora 20 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB

fedora heisenbug 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB

fedora latest 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB

See also

docker-save(1) to save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default).

History

April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) based on docker.com source material and internal work. June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit [at] home.org.au> July 2015 update by Mary Anthony <mary [at] docker.com> June 2016 update by Vincent Demeester <vincent [at] sbr.pm>