The docker repositories contains multiple images. Is it possible to just pull the specific image from Repository.
When I use:
docker pull ubuntu
It pulls down around 8-10 different versions of ubuntu.
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If there's a specific image that's tagged, you could use the --tag= (or -t) operator to pull the specific image you're looking for. There's a shorthand form for the command as well, which uses just a colon between the image name and the tag.
So if you want the version of ubuntu that's tagged as quantal, you could use:
docker pull ubuntu:quantal
The longer forms would be:
docker pull --tag="quantal" ubuntu
docker pull --t quantal ubuntu
This will still pull the historical layers used to build the final image, but will be a smaller subset than all of the layers for ubuntu.
[Updated to include Ben's note on shorthand from below. Thanks!]
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2As short hand you can also use a colon. `docker pull ubuntu:quantal` – Ben Whaley Mar 16 '14 at 00:52
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Cool, Thanks Johncosta and Ben – Ananda Mar 17 '14 at 08:33
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any idea how to list available tag names in docker search? – dan3 Apr 17 '15 at 14:01
