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Image → Load

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Summary

Loads Docker images from a binary tar archive.

Inputs

  • Binary Property (required) — The name of the binary property containing the tar archive to load. Defaults to 'data'.
  • Quiet — Whether to suppress progress details during image load. Defaults to false.

Output shape

A JSON object containing the parsed load output messages and metadata.

The operation returns the raw tar binary as input. The JSON output includes a list of load messages (entries), raw lines, unparsed lines, content type, and metadata like byte count and quiet mode status.

Examples

Example 1: Load a Docker image tar archive from an incoming binary item.

Binary Property: 'data', Quiet: true

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