Docker pull not getting image tagnames

Question

I'm running docker with boot2docker on OS X 10.10.

I'm following the main tutorial and doing a docker pull ubuntu

It gets the image okay, however when I then do docker images it only lists ubuntu:latest

REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             VIRTUAL SIZE
ubuntu              latest              5506de2b643b        3 weeks ago         199.3 MB

instead of the full list of images as the tutorial says:

REPOSITORY       TAG      IMAGE ID      CREATED      VIRTUAL SIZE
training/webapp  latest   fc77f57ad303  3 weeks ago  280.5 MB
ubuntu           13.10    5e019ab7bf6d  4 weeks ago  180 MB
ubuntu           saucy    5e019ab7bf6d  4 weeks ago  180 MB
ubuntu           12.04    74fe38d11401  4 weeks ago  209.6 MB
ubuntu           precise  74fe38d11401  4 weeks ago  209.6 MB
ubuntu           12.10    a7cf8ae4e998  4 weeks ago  171.3 MB
ubuntu           quantal  a7cf8ae4e998  4 weeks ago  171.3 MB
ubuntu           14.04    99ec81b80c55  4 weeks ago  266 MB
ubuntu           latest   99ec81b80c55  4 weeks ago  266 MB
ubuntu           trusty   99ec81b80c55  4 weeks ago  266 MB
ubuntu           13.04    316b678ddf48  4 weeks ago  169.4 MB
ubuntu           raring   316b678ddf48  4 weeks ago  169.4 MB
ubuntu           10.04    3db9c44f4520  4 weeks ago  183 MB
ubuntu           lucid    3db9c44f4520  4 weeks ago  183 MB

If I do docker images -a I see this:

REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             VIRTUAL SIZE
ubuntu              latest              5506de2b643b        3 weeks ago         199.3 MB
<none>              <none>              22093c35d77b        3 weeks ago         199.3 MB
<none>              <none>              3680052c0f5c        3 weeks ago         192.7 MB
<none>              <none>              e791be0477f2        3 weeks ago         192.7 MB
<none>              <none>              ccb62158e970        3 weeks ago         192.7 MB
<none>              <none>              d497ad3926c8        3 weeks ago         192.5 MB
<none>              <none>              511136ea3c5a        17 months ago       0 B

Anybody knows why this is happening?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '14 at 11:57

When you do a docker pull <image> you will only get the latest tag for that image. This is expected behaviour.

To pull a specific tag, use docker pull <image>:<tag>.

The list there in the documentation should only be expected if you've followed the full guide and used all those images. You usually only need one tag for an image.

Docker pull not getting image tagnames

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