| # context export | |
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| Export a context to a tar archive FILE or a tar stream on STDOUT. | |
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| ## Description | |
| Exports a context to a file that can then be used with `docker context import`. | |
| The default output filename is `<CONTEXT>.dockercontext`. To export to `STDOUT`, | |
| use `-` as filename, for example: | |
| ```console | |
| $ docker context export my-context - | |
| ``` |