% podman(1) podman-import - Simple tool to import a tarball as an image % Urvashi Mohnani
podman import - Import a tarball and save it as a filesystem image
podman import TARBALL [--change|-c] [--message|-m] [--help|-h]
podman import imports a tarball (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .bzip, .tar.xz, .txz) 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.
podman [GLOBAL OPTIONS]
podman import [GLOBAL OPTIONS]
podman import [OPTIONS] CONTAINER
--change, -c Apply the following possible instructions to the created image: CMD | ENTRYPOINT | ENV | EXPOSE | LABEL | STOPSIGNAL | USER | VOLUME | WORKDIR Can be set multiple times
--message, -m Set commit message for imported image
# 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# cat ctr.tar | podman import --message "importing the ctr.tar tarball" - image-imported
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:af376cdda5c0ac1d9592bf56567253d203f8de6a8edf356c683a645d75221540
376 B / 376 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures# 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 signaturespodman 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 signaturespodman(1), podman-export(1), crio(8), crio.conf(5)
November 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com