commit

Usage: hyper commit [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]

Create a new image from a container's changes

  -a, --author=""     Author (e.g., "John Hannibal Smith <[e-mail]>")
  -c, --change=[]     Apply specified Dockerfile instructions while committing the image
  --help              Print usage
  -m, --message=""    Commit message

It can be useful to commit a container's file changes or settings into a new image. This allows you to debug a container by running an interactive shell, or to export a working dataset to another server. However, it is generally better to use Dockerfiles to manage your images in a documented and maintainable way.

The commit operation will not include any data contained in volumes mounted inside the container.

The --change option will apply Dockerfile instructions to the image that is created. Supported Dockerfile instructions: CMD|ENTRYPOINT|ENV|EXPOSE|LABEL|ONBUILD|USER|VOLUME|WORKDIR

The commit operation only works on stopped container for now.

Examples

Commit a container

$ hyper ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED              STATUS                          PORTS
50d6ab76a13a        busybox             "sh"                About a minute ago   Exited (0) 3 seconds ago

$ hyper commit 50d6ab76a13a user/testimage:v1
sha256:a0696d8da7b60abe14cb962156fee7c03cbcafd02e8b5ed8de679a5a1a5f768f

$ hyper images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
user/testimage      v1                  a0696d8da7b6        30 seconds ago      1.126 MB

Commit a container with a new configuration

$ hyper ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED              STATUS                           PORTS
50d6ab76a13a        busybox             "sh"                About a minute ago   Exited (0) 10 seconds ago

$ hyper inspect -f "{{ .Config.Env }}" 50d6ab76a13a
[PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin]

$ hyper commit --change "ENV DEBUG true" 50d6ab76a13a  user/testimage:v2
sha256:8a0cb365e21b94328e0fe8727ff347051e8bc0292fa8c5d1450a9b1d272bbaa4

$ hyper inspect -f "{{ .Config.Env }}" 8a0cb365e21b
[DEBUG=true PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin]

Commit a container with new CMD instruction

$ hyper ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED              STATUS                          PORTS
50d6ab76a13a        busybox             "sh"                About a minute ago   Exited (0) About a minute ago

$ hyper commit --change='CMD ["top"]' 50d6ab76a13a  user/testimage:v3
sha256:ba79cd631395b20e415683f8a845bf89ef7b1d2237e609cead97e2a119f9e689

$ hyper run -d user/testimage:v3
9ad6e8b3e34e5e35c30f5c82548f5a47702803f8336cdb7db4e6cff6f637ee55

$ hyper ps -a
ID                  IMAGE                  COMMAND          CREATED             STATUS                           PORTS
9ad6e8b3e34e        user/testimage:v3      "top"            39 seconds ago      Up 35 seconds
50d6ab76a13a        busybox                "sh"             About a minute ago  Exited (0) About 3 minutes ago