podman-image-scp(1) General Commands Manual podman-image-scp(1)
NAME
podman-image-scp - Securely copy an image from one host to another
SYNOPSIS
podman image scp [options] name[:tag]
DESCRIPTION
podman image scp copies container images between hosts on a network.
This command can copy images to the remote host or from the remote host
as well as between two remote hosts. Note: :: is used to specify the
image name depending on Podman is saving or loading. Images can also be
transferred from rootful to rootless storage on the same machine without
using sshd. This feature is not supported on the remote client, includ-
ing Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines.
podman image scp [GLOBAL OPTIONS]
podman image scp [OPTIONS] NAME[:TAG] [HOSTNAME::]
podman image scp [OPTIONS] [HOSTNAME::]IMAGENAME
podman image scp [OPTIONS] [HOSTNAME::]IMAGENAME [HOSTNAME::]
OPTIONS
--help, -h
Print usage statement
--quiet, -q
Suppress the output
EXAMPLES
Copy specified image to local storage:
$ podman image scp alpine
Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest
Copy specified image from local storage to remote connection:
$ podman image scp alpine Fedora::/home/charliedoern/Documents/alpine
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 72e830a4dff5 done
Copying config 85f9dc67c7 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest
Copy specified image from remote connection to remote connection:
$ podman image scp Fedora::alpine RHEL::
Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest
Copy specified image via ssh to local storage:
$ podman image scp charliedoern@192.168.68.126:22/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock::alpine
WARN[0000] Unknown connection name given. Please use system connection add to specify the default remote socket location
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 9450ef9feb15 [--------------------------------------] 0.0b / 0.0b
Copying config 1f97f0559c done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest
Copy specified image from root account to user accounts local storage:
$ sudo podman image scp root@localhost::alpine username@localhost::
Copying blob e2eb06d8af82 done
Copying config 696d33ca15 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 5eb901baf107 skipped: already exists
Copying config 696d33ca15 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest
Copy specified image from root account to local storage:
$ sudo podman image scp root@localhost::alpine
Copying blob e2eb06d8af82 done
Copying config 696d33ca15 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 5eb901baf107
Copying config 696d33ca15 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-load(1), podman-save(1), podman-remote(1), podman-sys-
tem-connection-add(1), containers.conf(5), containers-transports(5)
HISTORY
July 2021, Originally written by Charlie Doern cdoern@redhat.com
⟨mailto:cdoern@redhat.com⟩
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