.TH "DOCKER" "1" " Docker User Manuals" "Docker Community" "JUNE 2014"  ""


.SH NAME
.PP
docker\-import \- Create an empty filesystem image and import the contents of the tarball (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .bzip, .tar.xz, .txz) into it, then optionally tag it.


.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
\fBdocker import\fP
[\fB\-c\fP|\fB\-\-change\fP[= []\fB]]
[\fP\-\-help**]
URL|\- [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]


.SH OPTIONS
.PP
\fB\-c\fP, \fB\-\-change\fP=[]
   Apply specified Dockerfile instructions while importing the image
   Supported Dockerfile instructions: \fB\fCADD\fR|\fB\fCCMD\fR|\fB\fCENTRYPOINT\fR|\fB\fCENV\fR|\fB\fCEXPOSE\fR|\fB\fCFROM\fR|\fB\fCMAINTAINER\fR|\fB\fCRUN\fR|\fB\fCUSER\fR|\fB\fCLABEL\fR|\fB\fCVOLUME\fR|\fB\fCWORKDIR\fR|\fB\fCCOPY\fR


.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Create a new filesystem image from the contents of a tarball (\fB\fC.tar\fR,
\fB\fC.tar.gz\fR, \fB\fC.tgz\fR, \fB\fC.bzip\fR, \fB\fC.tar.xz\fR, \fB\fC.txz\fR) into it, then optionally tag it.


.SH OPTIONS
.PP
\fB\-\-help\fP
  Print usage statement


.SH EXAMPLES
.SH Import from a remote location
.PP
.RS

.nf
# docker import http://example.com/exampleimage.tgz example/imagerepo

.fi
.RE

.SH Import from a local file
.PP
Import to docker via pipe and stdin:

.PP
.RS

.nf
# cat exampleimage.tgz | docker import \- example/imagelocal

.fi
.RE

.SH Import from a local file and tag
.PP
Import to docker via pipe and stdin:

.PP
.RS

.nf
# cat exampleimageV2.tgz | docker import \- example/imagelocal:V\-2.0

.fi
.RE

.SH Import from a local directory
.PP
.RS

.nf
# tar \-c . | docker import \- exampleimagedir

.fi
.RE

.SH Apply specified Dockerfile instructions while importing the image
.PP
This example sets the docker image ENV variable DEBUG to true by default.

.PP
.RS

.nf
# tar \-c . | docker import \-c="ENV DEBUG true" \- exampleimagedir

.fi
.RE


.SH See also
.PP
\fBdocker\-export(1)\fP to export the contents of a filesystem as a tar archive to STDOUT.


.SH HISTORY
.PP
April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com)
based on docker.com source material and internal work.
June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit 
\[la]SvenDowideit@home.org.au\[ra]