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Section: Docker User Manuals (1)Updated: Jun 2025
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NAME
docke-imag-save- Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)
SYNOPSIS
docker image save [OPTIONS] IMAGE [IMAGE...]
DESCRIPTION
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.
EXAMPLES
Save all fedora repository images to a fedor-all.tar and save the latest fedora image to a fedor-latest.tar:$ docker image save fedora > fedor-all.tar $ docker image save-output=fedor-latest.tar fedora:latest $ ls-sh fedor-all.tar 721M fedor-all.tar $ ls-sh fedor-latest.tar 367M fedor-latest.tar
See also
docke-imag-load(1) to load an image from a tar archive on STDIN.
OPTIONS
-o, -output="" Write to a file, instead of STDOUT
-platform=""
Save only the given platform variant. Formatted as "os[/arch[/variant]]" (e.g., "linux/amd64")
SEE ALSO
docke-image(1)