podman-import(1) General Commands Manual podman-import(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

podman-import - Import a tarball and save it as a filesystem image

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**podman import** \[*options*] *path* \[*reference*]

**podman image import** \[*options*] *path* \[*reference*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

**podman import** imports a tarball (possibly compressed using Gzip, Bzip2, XZ or Zstd) and saves it as a filesystem image. Remote tarballs can be specified using a URL. Various image instructions can be configured with the **--change** flag and a commit message can be set using the **--message** flag. **reference**, if present, is a tag to assign to the image. **podman import** is used for importing from the archive generated by **podman export**, that includes the container's filesystem. To import the archive of image layers created by **podman save**, use **podman load**. Note: **:** is a restricted character and cannot be part of the file name.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

## **--arch**

Set architecture of the imported image.

## **--change**, **-c**=*instruction*

Apply the following possible instructions to the created image: **CMD** | **ENTRYPOINT** | **ENV** | **EXPOSE** | **LABEL** | **STOPSIGNAL** | **USER** | **VOLUME** | **WORKDIR**

Can be set multiple times

## **--help**, **-h**

Print usage statement

## **--message**, **-m**=*message*

Set commit message for imported image

## **--os**

Set OS of the imported image.

## **--quiet**, **-q**

Shows progress on the import

## **--variant**

Set variant of the imported image.

# [EXAMPLES](#EXAMPLES)

Import the selected tarball into new image, specifying the CMD, ENTRYPOINT and LABEL:

```
$ podman import --change CMD=/bin/bash --change ENTRYPOINT=/bin/sh --change LABEL=blue=image ctr.tar image-imported
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86


 25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:c16a6d30f3782288ec4e7521c754acc29d37155629cb39149756f486dae2d4cd


 448 B / 448 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3
```

Import the selected tarball into new image, specifying the CMD, ENTRYPOINT and LABEL:

```
$ podman import --change 'ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh","-c","test-image"]'  --change LABEL=blue=image test-image.tar image-imported
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob e3b0c44298fc skipped: already exists
Copying config 1105523502 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
110552350206337183ceadc0bdd646dc356e06514c548b69a8917b4182414b
```

Import new tagged image from stdin in quiet mode:

```
$ cat ctr.tar | podman -q import --message "importing the ctr.tar file" - image-imported
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3
```

Import an image from stdin:

```
$ cat ctr.tar | podman import -
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86


 25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:d61387b4d5edf65edee5353e2340783703074ffeaaac529cde97a8357eea7645


 378 B / 378 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3
```

Import named image from tarball via a URL:

```
$ podman import http://example.com/ctr.tar url-image
Downloading from "http://example.com/ctr.tar"
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:b41deda5a2feb1f03a5c1bb38c598cbc12c9ccd675f438edc6acd815f7585b86


 25.80 MB / 25.80 MB [======================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:5813fe8a3b18696089fd09957a12e88bda43dc1745b5240879ffffe93240d29a


 419 B / 419 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
db65d991f3bbf7f31ed1064db9a6ced7652e3f8166c4736aa9133dadd3c7acb3
```

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**podman(1)**](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman.1), [**podman-export(1)**](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-export.1)

# [HISTORY](#HISTORY)

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

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Document: podman-image-import(1) from podman-doc-6.0 6.0.2-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/containers/podman