Usage: docker load [OPTIONS] Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN Options: --help Print usage -i, --input string Read from tar archive file, instead of STDIN. The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz -q, --quiet Suppress the load output but still outputs the imported images
Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream. Restores both images and tags.
$ docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE $ 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 $ 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