moby/docs/reference/commandline/plugin_create.md
Brian Goff 03c6949739 Add docker plugin upgrade
This allows a plugin to be upgraded without requiring to
uninstall/reinstall a plugin.
Since plugin resources (e.g. volumes) are tied to a plugin ID, this is
important to ensure resources aren't lost.

The plugin must be disabled while upgrading (errors out if enabled).
This does not add any convenience flags for automatically
disabling/re-enabling the plugin during before/after upgrade.

Since an upgrade may change requested permissions, the user is required
to accept permissions just like `docker plugin install`.

Signed-off-by: Brian Goff <cpuguy83@gmail.com>
2017-02-03 16:21:12 -05:00

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plugin create

Usage:  docker plugin create [OPTIONS] PLUGIN PLUGIN-DATA-DIR

Create a plugin from a rootfs and configuration. Plugin data directory must contain config.json and rootfs directory.

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 config.json

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 config.json
0 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 420 Nov  7 01:40 rootfs

$ docker plugin create plugin /home/pluginDir
plugin

$ docker plugin ls
ID                  NAME                TAG                 DESCRIPTION                  ENABLED
672d8144ec02        plugin              latest              A sample plugin for Docker   false

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