Importing container from .tar (a docker saved one)

[FiberTelecom]

Hi community,

I’m playing with containers inside my vyos

I want to use my own docker images, buildt from Dockerfiles an then exported as .tar files

Let’s say I have uploaded an exported one to /config/user-data/containers/pippo.tar

then I try to add it to the system with

add container image /config/user-data/containers/pippo.tar

but the error ”Error: invalid reference format”

My workaround is to import manualli with

sudo podman load -i /config/user-data/containers/pippo.tar

and then in configure mode

set container name my-pippo image pippo:latest

and it’s working well, but … isn’t there a better (or simply an official) way to use own containers ?

I think that this way I could have problemas on version updates.

Thanks for any advice.

[Viacheslav]

I created a feature request T7874

[FiberTelecom]

Well, so I can stop searching and reading documentation … and just wait.

Thank you

[L0crian]

If you’re not building private data into the containers, you can always upload them to your Docker Hub. Then just add the images like normal to VyOS. It’s an extra step until the feature is added, but if can make it easier if you need to add the image to multiple instances.

[FiberTelecom]

Not a bad advice, thank you but I have private things

So … I configured a private docker-registry , and declared it in vyos configuration … and it’s working.

But I’d prefer to import the .tar locally … so I hope it could be implemented soon.