1podman-load(1)              General Commands Manual             podman-load(1)
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NAME

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

10       podman load [options]
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13       podman image load [options]
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DESCRIPTION

17       podman  load  loads an image from either an oci-archive or a docker-ar‐
18       chive stored on the local machine into container storage.  podman  load
19       reads from stdin by default or a file if the input option is set.  pod‐
20       man load is used for loading from the archive generated by podman save,
21       that  includes  the  image  parent  layers. To load the archive of con‐
22       tainer's filesystem created by podman export, use podman import.
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25       The local client further supports loading an oci-dir or a docker-dir as
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29       The quiet option suppresses the progress output when set.  Note: : is a
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OPTIONS

43   --help, -h
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48       Load the specified input file instead of from stdin.  The file  can  be
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57       NOTE: Use the environment variable TMPDIR to change the temporary stor‐
58       age location of container images. Podman defaults to use /var/tmp.
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EXAMPLES

66       $ podman load --quiet -i fedora.tar.gz
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72       $ podman load < fedora.tar
73       Getting image source signatures
74       Copying blob sha256:5bef08742407efd622d243692b79ba0055383bbce12900324f75e56f589aedb0
75        0 B / 4.03 MB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
76       Copying config sha256:7328f6f8b41890597575cbaadc884e7386ae0acc53b747401ebce5cf0d624560
77        0 B / 1.48 KB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
78       Writing manifest to image destination
79       Storing signatures
80       Loaded image:  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest
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83       $ cat fedora.tar | podman load
84       Getting image source signatures
85       Copying blob sha256:5bef08742407efd622d243692b79ba0055383bbce12900324f75e56f589aedb0
86        0 B / 4.03 MB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
87       Copying config sha256:7328f6f8b41890597575cbaadc884e7386ae0acc53b747401ebce5cf0d624560
88        0 B / 1.48 KB [---------------------------------------------------------------]
89       Writing manifest to image destination
90       Storing signatures
91       Loaded image:  registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest
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SEE ALSO

96       podman(1), podman-save(1)
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HISTORY

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