| # load |
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| Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN |
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| ### Aliases |
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| `docker image load`, `docker load` |
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| ### Options |
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| | Name | Type | Default | Description | |
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| | [`-i`](#input), [`--input`](#input) | `string` | | Read from tar archive file, instead of STDIN | |
| | [`--platform`](#platform) | `stringSlice` | | Load only the given platform(s). Formatted as a comma-separated list of `os[/arch[/variant]]` (e.g., `linux/amd64,linux/arm64/v8`). | |
| | `-q`, `--quiet` | `bool` | | Suppress the load output | |
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| ## Description |
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| 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. |
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| ## Examples |
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| ```console |
| $ docker image ls |
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| REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE |
| ``` |
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| ### Load images from STDIN |
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| ```console |
| $ docker load < busybox.tar.gz |
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| Loaded image: busybox:latest |
| $ docker images |
| REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE |
| busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB |
| ``` |
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| ### <a name="input"></a> Load images from a file (--input) |
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| ```console |
| $ docker load --input fedora.tar |
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| Loaded image: fedora:rawhide |
| Loaded image: fedora:20 |
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| $ docker images |
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| 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 |
| ``` |
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| ### <a name="platform"></a> Load a specific platform (--platform) |
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| The `--platform` option allows you to specify which platform variant of the |
| image to load. By default, `docker load` loads all platform variants that |
| are present in the archive. Use the `--platform` option to specify which |
| platform variant of the image to load. An error is produced if the given |
| platform is not present in the archive. |
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| The platform option takes the `os[/arch[/variant]]` format; for example, |
| `linux/amd64` or `linux/arm64/v8`. Architecture and variant are optional, |
| and default to the daemon's native architecture if omitted. |
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| The following example loads the `linux/amd64` variant of an `alpine` image |
| from an archive that contains multiple platform variants. |
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| ```console |
| $ docker image load -i image.tar --platform=linux/amd64 |
| Loaded image: alpine:latest |
| ``` |
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| The following example attempts to load a `linux/ppc64le` image from an |
| archive, but the given platform is not present in the archive; |
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| ```console |
| $ docker image load -i image.tar --platform=linux/ppc64le |
| requested platform (linux/ppc64le) not found: image might be filtered out |
| ``` |
