Function: imageGet() ​
imageGet(
opts
):Promise
<ImageGetResponse
>
Export an image
Get a tarball containing all images and metadata for a repository.
If name
is a specific name and tag (e.g. ubuntu:latest
), then only that image (and its parents) are returned. If name
is an image ID, similarly only that image (and its parents) are returned, but with the exclusion of the repositories
file in the tarball, as there were no image names referenced.
Image tarball format ​
An image tarball contains one directory per image layer (named using its long ID), each containing these files:
VERSION
: currently1.0
- the file format versionjson
: detailed layer information, similar todocker inspect layer_id
layer.tar
: A tarfile containing the filesystem changes in this layer
The layer.tar
file contains aufs
style .wh..wh.aufs
files and directories for storing attribute changes and deletions.
If the tarball defines a repository, the tarball should also include a repositories
file at the root that contains a list of repository and tag names mapped to layer IDs.
{
"hello-world": {
"latest": "565a9d68a73f6706862bfe8409a7f659776d4d60a8d096eb4a3cbce6999cc2a1"
}
}
Parameters ​
Parameter | Type |
---|---|
|
Returns ​
Promise
<ImageGetResponse
>