github.com/eikeon/docker@v1.5.0-rc4/docs/man/docker-commit.1.md (about) 1 % DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals 2 % Docker Community 3 % JUNE 2014 4 # NAME 5 docker-commit - Create a new image from a container's changes 6 7 # SYNOPSIS 8 **docker commit** 9 [**-a**|**--author**[=*AUTHOR*]] 10 [**--help**] 11 [**-m**|**--message**[=*MESSAGE*]] 12 [**-p**|**--pause**[=*true*]] 13 CONTAINER [REPOSITORY[:TAG]] 14 15 # DESCRIPTION 16 Using an existing container's name or ID you can create a new image. 17 18 # OPTIONS 19 **-a**, **--author**="" 20 Author (e.g., "John Hannibal Smith <hannibal@a-team.com>") 21 22 **--help** 23 Print usage statement 24 25 **-m**, **--message**="" 26 Commit message 27 28 **-p**, **--pause**=*true*|*false* 29 Pause container during commit. The default is *true*. 30 31 # EXAMPLES 32 33 ## Creating a new image from an existing container 34 An existing Fedora based container has had Apache installed while running 35 in interactive mode with the bash shell. Apache is also running. To 36 create a new image run docker ps to find the container's ID and then run: 37 38 # docker commit -m="Added Apache to Fedora base image" \ 39 -a="A D Ministrator" 98bd7fc99854 fedora/fedora_httpd:20 40 41 # HISTORY 42 April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) 43 based on docker.com source material and in 44 June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au> 45 July 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au>