Docker 101 : Moving docker images between different hosts



Moving an image from one registry to another requires uploading and pulling the image
To be able to do that, we could use the "docker save" command  which saves an image to a file.

We could pull our image using the below command:


The we run our image to test it using the following:


We check our containers and their images using the below command:


Now, we zip our image in "debian.tar.gz" file using the name of the image:


The file can be imported to another host using the below command:


We can check our image using the following command:


We could also use the "docker save" command as follows:


We could then extract the "debian-relocated.tar.gz" file and use it on another host as follows:


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