github.com/AliyunContainerService/cli@v0.0.0-20181009023821-814ced4b30d0/docs/reference/commandline/plugin_create.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "plugin create" 3 description: "the plugin create command description and usage" 4 keywords: "plugin, create" 5 --- 6 7 <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/cli GitHub 8 repository at https://github.com/docker/cli/. Make all 9 pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in 10 another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will 11 periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull 12 requests which include edits to this file in other repositories 13 will be rejected. 14 --> 15 16 # plugin create 17 18 ```markdown 19 Usage: docker plugin create [OPTIONS] PLUGIN PLUGIN-DATA-DIR 20 21 Create a plugin from a rootfs and configuration. Plugin data directory must contain config.json and rootfs directory. 22 23 Options: 24 --compress Compress the context using gzip 25 --help Print usage 26 ``` 27 28 ## Description 29 30 Creates a plugin. Before creating the plugin, prepare the plugin's root filesystem as well as 31 [the config.json](../../extend/config.md) 32 33 ## Examples 34 35 The following example shows how to create a sample `plugin`. 36 37 ```bash 38 $ ls -ls /home/pluginDir 39 40 total 4 41 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 431 Nov 7 01:40 config.json 42 0 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 420 Nov 7 01:40 rootfs 43 44 $ docker plugin create plugin /home/pluginDir 45 46 plugin 47 48 $ docker plugin ls 49 50 ID NAME TAG DESCRIPTION ENABLED 51 672d8144ec02 plugin latest A sample plugin for Docker false 52 ``` 53 54 The plugin can subsequently be enabled for local use or pushed to the public registry. 55 56 ## Related commands 57 58 * [plugin disable](plugin_disable.md) 59 * [plugin enable](plugin_enable.md) 60 * [plugin inspect](plugin_inspect.md) 61 * [plugin install](plugin_install.md) 62 * [plugin ls](plugin_ls.md) 63 * [plugin push](plugin_push.md) 64 * [plugin rm](plugin_rm.md) 65 * [plugin set](plugin_set.md) 66 * [plugin upgrade](plugin_upgrade.md)