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Save and load Docker images as zipped tarballs

Saving and sharing a Docker image on your host is possible via the following steps.

(1) Save and ZIP the image as a tarball:

docker save -o image.tar image-name
gzip -k image.tar

(2) Load the tarball on the other machine:

gunzip -k image.tar.gz
docker load -i image.tar