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containers.podman.podman_import – Import Podman container from a tar file.

Note

This plugin is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install containers.podman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: containers.podman.podman_import.

Synopsis

  • podman import imports a tarball (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .bzip, .tar.xz, .txz) and saves it as a filesystem image.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • Podman installed on host

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
change
list / elements=dictionary
Set changes as list of key-value pairs, see example.
commit_message
string
Set commit message for imported image
executable
string
Default:
"podman"
Path to podman executable if it is not in the $PATH on the machine running podman
src
string / required
Path to image file to load.

Examples

# What modules does for example
- containers.podman.podman_import:
    src: /path/to/tar/file
    change:
      - "CMD": /bin/bash
      - "User": root
    commit_message: "Importing image"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
image
dictionary
always
info from loaded image

Sample:
{'Annotations': {}, 'Architecture': 'amd64', 'Author': '', 'Comment': 'imported from tarball', 'Config': {}, 'Created': '2021-09-07T04:45:38.749977105+03:00', 'Digest': 'sha256:8730c75be86a718929a658db4663d487e562d66762....', 'GraphDriver': {'Data': {'UpperDir': '/home/...34/diff', 'WorkDir': '/home/.../work'}, 'Name': 'overlay'}, 'History': [{'comment': 'imported from tarball', 'created': '2021-09-07T04:45:38.749977105+03:00', 'created_by': '/bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:091... in /'}], 'Id': 'cbc6d73c4d232db6e8441df96af81855f62c74157b5db80a1d5...', 'Labels': None, 'ManifestType': 'application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json', 'NamesHistory': None, 'Os': 'linux', 'Parent': '', 'RepoDigests': [], 'RepoTags': [], 'RootFS': {'Layers': ['sha256:....'], 'Type': 'layers'}, 'Size': 5882449, 'User': '', 'Version': '', 'VirtualSize': 5882449}


Authors

  • Sagi Shnaidman (@sshnaidm)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/containers/podman/podman_import_module.html