containers.podman.podman_save module – Saves podman image to tar file¶
Note
This module is part of the containers.podman collection (version 1.11.0).
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.
You need further requirements to be able to use this module,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: containers.podman.podman_save.
Synopsis¶
- podman save saves an image to either docker-archive, oci-archive, oci-dir (directory with oci manifest type), or docker-dir (directory with v2s2 manifest type) on the local machine, default is docker-archive. 
Requirements¶
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- Podman installed on host 
Parameters¶
| Parameter | Comments | 
|---|---|
| Compress tarball image layers when pushing to a directory using the ‘dir’ transport. (default is same compression type, compressed or uncompressed, as source) Choices: 
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| Destination file to write image to. | |
| Path to  Default:  | |
| Force saving to file even if it exists. Choices: 
 | |
| Save image to docker-archive, oci-archive (see containers-transports(5)), oci-dir (oci transport), or docker-dir (dir transport with v2s2 manifest type). Choices: 
 | |
| Image to save. | |
| Allow for creating archives with more than one image. Additional names will be interpreted as images instead of tags. Only supported for docker-archive. Choices: 
 | 
Examples¶
# What modules does for example
- containers.podman.podman_save:
    dest: /path/to/tar/file
    compress: true
    format: oci-dir