docker-image-save - Man Page

• Save an image by redirecting stdout to a .tar archive: docker [save|image save] image:tag > path/to/file.tar
• Save an image to a .tar archive: docker [save|image save] [-o|--output] path/to/file.tar image:tag
• Save all tags of the image: docker [save|image save] [-o|--output] path/to/file.tar image_name
• Cherry-pick particular tags of an image to save: docker [save|image save] [-o|--output] path/to/file.tar image_name:tag1 image_name:tag2 ...

tldr.sh

docker image save [Options] IMAGE [IMAGE...]

Produces a tarred repository to the standard output stream. Contains all parent layers, and all tags + versions, or specified repo:tag.

Stream to a file instead of STDOUT by using -o.

Save all fedora repository images to a fedora-all.tar and save the latest fedora image to a fedora-latest.tar:

$ docker image save fedora > fedora-all.tar
$ docker image save --output=fedora-latest.tar fedora:latest
$ ls -sh fedora-all.tar
721M fedora-all.tar
$ ls -sh fedora-latest.tar
367M fedora-latest.tar

docker-image-load(1) to load an image from a tar archive on STDIN.

-o, --output="" Write to a file, instead of STDOUT

--platform=[] Save only the given platform(s). Formatted as a comma-separated list of "os[/arch[/variant]]" (e.g., "linux/amd64,linux/arm64/v8")

docker-image(1)

docker-image(1), docker-image-load(1).