1podman-import(1) General Commands Manual podman-import(1)
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6 podman-import - Import a tarball and save it as a filesystem image
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10 podman import [options] path [reference]
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17 podman import imports a tarball (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .bzip, .tar.xz,
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21 flag. reference, if present, is a tag to assign to the image. podman
22 import is used for importing from the archive generated by podman ex‐
23 port, that includes the container's filesystem. To import the archive
24 of image layers created by podman save, use podman load. Note: : is a
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63 $ podman import --change CMD=/bin/bash --change ENTRYPOINT=/bin/sh --change LABEL=blue=image ctr.tar image-imported
64 Getting image source signatures
65 Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
66 25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
67 Copying config sha256:c16a6d30f3782288ec4e7521c754acc29d37155629cb39149756f486dae2d4cd
68 448 B / 448 B [============================================================] 0s
69 Writing manifest to image destination
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75 $ podman import --change 'ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh","-c","test-image"]' --change LABEL=blue=image test-image.tar image-imported
76 Getting image source signatures
77 Copying blob e3b0c44298fc skipped: already exists
78 Copying config 1105523502 done
79 Writing manifest to image destination
80 Storing signatures
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85 $ podman import --change "CMD /bin/sh" --change LABEL=blue=image test-image.tar image-imported
86 Getting image source signatures
87 Copying blob e3b0c44298fc skipped: already exists
88 Copying config ae9a27e249 done
89 Writing manifest to image destination
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95 $ cat ctr.tar | podman -q import --message "importing the ctr.tar tarball" - image-imported
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100 $ cat ctr.tar | podman import -
101 Getting image source signatures
102 Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
103 25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
104 Copying config sha256:d61387b4d5edf65edee5353e2340783703074ffeaaac529cde97a8357eea7645
105 378 B / 378 B [============================================================] 0s
106 Writing manifest to image destination
107 Storing signatures
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112 $ podman import http://example.com/ctr.tar url-image
113 Downloading from "http://example.com/ctr.tar"
114 Getting image source signatures
115 Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86
116 25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
117 Copying config sha256:5813fe8a3b18696089fd09957a12e88bda43dc1745b5240879ffffe93240d29a
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119 Writing manifest to image destination
120 Storing signatures
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130 November 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@red‐
131 hat.com ⟨mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩
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