26.5 Saving a Container to an Image
Once the container guest system is configured to your requirements there is a good chance that you will want to create and run more than one container of this particular type. To do this, the container needs to be saved as an image to local storage so that it can be used as the basis for additional container instances. This is achieved using the podman commit command combined with the name or ID of the container and the name by which the image will be stored, for example:
$ podman commit mycontainer myfedora_image
Once the image has been saved, check that it now appears in the list of images in the local repository:
$ podman images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
localhost/myfedora_image latest aef244443f2d 7 seconds ago 201 MB
docker.io/library/fedora latest f0858ad3febd 2 months ago 201 MB
The saved image can now be used to create additional containers identical to the...
