moby/docs/reference/commandline/plugin_create.md

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title: "plugin create (experimental)" description: "the plugin create command description and usage" keywords: "plugin, create"

advisory: "experimental"

Usage:  docker plugin create [OPTIONS] reponame[:tag] PATH-TO-ROOTFS

create a plugin from the given PATH-TO-ROOTFS, which contains the plugin's root filesystem and the manifest file, manifest.json

Options:
      --compress   Compress the context using gzip 
      --help       Print usage

Creates a plugin. Before creating the plugin, prepare the plugin's root filesystem as well as the manifest.json (https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/docs/extend/manifest.md)

The following example shows how to create a sample plugin.

$ ls -ls /home/pluginDir

4 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 431 Nov  7 01:40 manifest.json
0 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 420 Nov  7 01:40 rootfs

$ docker plugin create plugin /home/pluginDir
plugin

NAME                  	TAG                 DESCRIPTION                  ENABLED
plugin                  latest              A sample plugin for Docker   true

The plugin can subsequently be enabled for local use or pushed to the public registry.

Related information

• plugin ls
• plugin enable
• plugin disable
• plugin inspect
• plugin install
• plugin rm
• plugin set