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. You can load to the remote host or from the remote host as well as in between two remote hosts. Note: :: is used to specify the image name depending on if you are saving or loading.

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

--quiet, -q

Suppress the output

--help, -h

Print usage statement

EXAMPLES

$ podman image scp alpine
Loaded image(s): docker.io/library/alpine:latest

$ 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(s): docker.io/library/alpine:latest

$ podman image scp Fedora::alpine RHEL::
Loaded image(s): docker.io/library/alpine:latest

$ 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(s): docker.io/library/alpine:latest

SEE ALSO

podman(1), podman-load(1), podman-save(1), podman-remote(1), podman-system-connection-add(1), containers.conf(5), containers-transports(5)

HISTORY

July 2021, Originally written by Charlie Doern mailto:cdoern@redhat.com