load

Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN

Aliases

docker image load, docker load

Options

Name	Type	Default	Description
-i, --input	string		Read from tar archive file, instead of STDIN
-q, --quiet	bool		Suppress the load output

Description

Load an image or repository from a tar archive (even if compressed with gzip, bzip2, xz or zstd) from a file or STDIN. It restores both images and tags.

Examples

$ docker image ls

REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE

Load images from STDIN

$ docker load < busybox.tar.gz

Loaded image: busybox:latest
$ docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
busybox             latest              769b9341d937        7 weeks ago         2.489 MB

Load images from a file (--input)

$ 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