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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:33 PMI am using rancher desktop in a windows vm to create the docker image but i am not able to find the path where it is storing all the images it builds. Help is appreciated
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:38 PMI believe all created images and their requisite layers stored in the docker-data vhdx file mounted to the wsl instance
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:39 PMHow can we access that
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:39 PMyou should be able to use docker save to export the tarball if you need
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:39 PMAs i am using windows host so it is not mountable
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:39 PMwell its a linux file system?
whats the goal?
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:40 PMI want to take that image out wherever rancher is storing image and publish it
Using windows host
And made rhel image
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:41 PMwell that would be docker push to your private registry
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:41 PMOk , but is there some way that I can see the image in my host ?
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:42 PMremember its not really a single archive unless you save it as sucj
just a mess of file system layers
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:43 PMCan we get archive out it ?
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:43 PMand no the fs layers would not be visible to windows since they are only usable on linux
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:43 PMLike using zip or rar file
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:43 PMyup… use docker save
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:44 PMPlease can your provide the command
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:44 PMit will create a tar.gz of all the bitx
just did …. “docker save”
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:44 PMDo I need to provide image name as well ?
And what about path ?
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:44 PMlook at the help on that command
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:44 PMOk
Thanks 👍
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wide-mechanic-33041
11/18/2022, 12:46 PMit will be something like docker save <imageid> -o myimage.tar.gz
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echoing-helmet-91774
11/18/2022, 12:46 PMCool thanks
I will try it
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steep-airplane-89460
11/24/2022, 2:33 PMI use containerd and the command is ... nerdctl -n default save -o name-of-image.tar name-of-image:latest ( assuming its in the default namespace, otherwise k8s.io)
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