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
Requirements
Parameters
Examples
Return Values

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