[systemd-devel] Creating containers from local .raw or tar images

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 02.03.15 15:45, Erik Johnson (erik at saltstack.com) wrote:

> The machinectl pull-* commands allow you to download container images,
> but no such option (yet) exists for deploying from an image or tar file
> on your local filesystem.
> 
> Are there plans to expand the machinectl pull-* commands to support
> either absolute file paths or file:/// URLs?
> 
> My current dirty hack is to run an nginx instance that listens only on
> localhost, and pull from http://localhost/path/to/container.tar.gz, but
> this is far from ideal.

You can simply place your raw or tar images in /var/lib/machines/
directly.

But yeah, pretty high on my list is to add "machinectl import-raw",
"machinectl import-tar", "machinectl export-raw", "machinectl
export-tar", for doing this in a nice way.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat