moby--moby/docs/reference/commandline/plugin_create.md

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plugin create

Usage:  docker plugin create [OPTIONS] PLUGIN[:tag] PATH-TO-ROOTFS(rootfs + config.json)

Create a plugin from a rootfs and configuration

Options:
      --compress   Compress the context using gzip 
      --help       Print usage

Creates a plugin. Before creating the plugin, prepare the plugin's root filesystem as well as the config.json

The following example shows how to create a sample plugin.

$ ls -ls /home/pluginDir

4 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 431 Nov  7 01:40 config.json
0 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 420 Nov  7 01:40 rootfs

$ docker plugin create plugin /home/pluginDir
plugin

NAME                  	TAG                 DESCRIPTION                  ENABLED
plugin                  latest              A sample plugin for Docker   true

The plugin can subsequently be enabled for local use or pushed to the public registry.

Related information

• plugin disable
• plugin enable
• plugin inspect
• plugin install
• plugin ls
• plugin push
• plugin rm
• plugin set