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35 lines
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Markdown
% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals
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% William Henry
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% APRIL 2014
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# NAME
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docker-commit - Create a new image from the changes to an existing
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container
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# SYNOPSIS
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**docker commit** **-a**|**--author**[=""] **-m**|**--message**[=""]
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CONTAINER [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]
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# DESCRIPTION
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Using an existing container's name or ID you can create a new image.
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# OPTIONS
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**-a, --author**=""
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Author name. (eg. "John Hannibal Smith <hannibal@a-team.com>"
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**-m, --message**=""
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Commit message
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# EXAMPLES
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## Creating a new image from an existing container
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An existing Fedora based container has had Apache installed while running
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in interactive mode with the bash shell. Apache is also running. To
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create a new image run docker ps to find the container's ID and then run:
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# docker commit -m= "Added Apache to Fedora base image" \
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-a="A D Ministrator" 98bd7fc99854 fedora/fedora_httpd:20
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# HISTORY
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April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com)
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based on docker.io source material and in
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