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pull
Download an image from a registry
Aliases
docker image pull, docker pull
Options
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
-a, --all-tags |
bool |
Download all tagged images in the repository | |
--disable-content-trust |
bool |
true |
Skip image verification |
--platform |
string |
Set platform if server is multi-platform capable | |
-q, --quiet |
bool |
Suppress verbose output |
Description
Most of your images will be created on top of a base image from the Docker Hub registry.
Docker Hub contains many pre-built images that you
can pull and try without needing to define and configure your own.
To download a particular image, or set of images (i.e., a repository),
use docker pull.
Proxy configuration
If you are behind an HTTP proxy server, for example in corporate settings, before open a connect to registry, you may need to configure the Docker daemon's proxy settings, refer to the dockerd command-line reference for details.
Concurrent downloads
By default the Docker daemon will pull three layers of an image at a time.
If you are on a low bandwidth connection this may cause timeout issues and you may want to lower
this via the --max-concurrent-downloads daemon option. See the
daemon documentation for more details.
Examples
Pull an image from Docker Hub
To download a particular image, or set of images (i.e., a repository), use
docker image pull (or the docker pull shorthand). If no tag is provided,
Docker Engine uses the :latest tag as a default. This example pulls the
debian:latest image:
$ docker image pull debian
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from library/debian
e756f3fdd6a3: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:3f1d6c17773a45c97bd8f158d665c9709d7b29ed7917ac934086ad96f92e4510
Status: Downloaded newer image for debian:latest
docker.io/library/debian:latest
Docker images can consist of multiple layers. In the example above, the image
consists of a single layer; e756f3fdd6a3.
Layers can be reused by images. For example, the debian:bookworm image shares
its layer with the debian:latest. Pulling the debian:bookworm image therefore
only pulls its metadata, but not its layers, because the layer is already present
locally:
$ docker image pull debian:bookworm
bookworm: Pulling from library/debian
Digest: sha256:3f1d6c17773a45c97bd8f158d665c9709d7b29ed7917ac934086ad96f92e4510
Status: Downloaded newer image for debian:bookworm
docker.io/library/debian:bookworm
To see which images are present locally, use the docker images
command:
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
debian bookworm 4eacea30377a 8 days ago 124MB
debian latest 4eacea30377a 8 days ago 124MB
Docker uses a content-addressable image store, and the image ID is a SHA256
digest covering the image's configuration and layers. In the example above,
debian:bookworm and debian:latest have the same image ID because they are
the same image tagged with different names. Because they are the same image,
their layers are stored only once and do not consume extra disk space.
For more information about images, layers, and the content-addressable store, refer to understand images, containers, and storage drivers.
Pull an image by digest (immutable identifier)
So far, you've pulled images by their name (and "tag"). Using names and tags is
a convenient way to work with images. When using tags, you can docker pull an
image again to make sure you have the most up-to-date version of that image.
For example, docker pull ubuntu:24.04 pulls the latest version of the Ubuntu
24.04 image.
In some cases you don't want images to be updated to newer versions, but prefer to use a fixed version of an image. Docker enables you to pull an image by its digest. When pulling an image by digest, you specify exactly which version of an image to pull. Doing so, allows you to "pin" an image to that version, and guarantee that the image you're using is always the same.
To know the digest of an image, pull the image first. Let's pull the latest
ubuntu:24.04 image from Docker Hub:
$ docker pull ubuntu:24.04
24.04: Pulling from library/ubuntu
125a6e411906: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:2e863c44b718727c860746568e1d54afd13b2fa71b160f5cd9058fc436217b30
Status: Downloaded newer image for ubuntu:24.04
docker.io/library/ubuntu:24.04
Docker prints the digest of the image after the pull has finished. In the example above, the digest of the image is:
sha256:2e863c44b718727c860746568e1d54afd13b2fa71b160f5cd9058fc436217b30
Docker also prints the digest of an image when pushing to a registry. This may be useful if you want to pin to a version of the image you just pushed.
A digest takes the place of the tag when pulling an image, for example, to pull the above image by digest, run the following command:
$ docker pull ubuntu@sha256:2e863c44b718727c860746568e1d54afd13b2fa71b160f5cd9058fc436217b30
docker.io/library/ubuntu@sha256:2e863c44b718727c860746568e1d54afd13b2fa71b160f5cd9058fc436217b30: Pulling from library/ubuntu
Digest: sha256:2e863c44b718727c860746568e1d54afd13b2fa71b160f5cd9058fc436217b30
Status: Image is up to date for ubuntu@sha256:2e863c44b718727c860746568e1d54afd13b2fa71b160f5cd9058fc436217b30
docker.io/library/ubuntu@sha256:2e863c44b718727c860746568e1d54afd13b2fa71b160f5cd9058fc436217b30
Digest can also be used in the FROM of a Dockerfile, for example:
FROM ubuntu@sha256:2e863c44b718727c860746568e1d54afd13b2fa71b160f5cd9058fc436217b30
LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="some maintainer <maintainer@example.com>"
[!NOTE] Using this feature "pins" an image to a specific version in time. Docker does therefore not pull updated versions of an image, which may include security updates. If you want to pull an updated image, you need to change the digest accordingly.
Pull from a different registry
By default, docker pull pulls images from Docker Hub. It is also possible to
manually specify the path of a registry to pull from. For example, if you have
set up a local registry, you can specify its path to pull from it. A registry
path is similar to a URL, but does not contain a protocol specifier (https://).
The following command pulls the testing/test-image image from a local registry
listening on port 5000 (myregistry.local:5000):
$ docker image pull myregistry.local:5000/testing/test-image
Registry credentials are managed by docker login.
Docker uses the https:// protocol to communicate with a registry, unless the
registry is allowed to be accessed over an insecure connection. Refer to the
insecure registries section for more information.
Pull a repository with multiple images (-a, --all-tags)
By default, docker pull pulls a single image from the registry. A repository
can contain multiple images. To pull all images from a repository, provide the
-a (or --all-tags) option when using docker pull.
This command pulls all images from the ubuntu repository:
$ docker image pull --all-tags ubuntu
Pulling repository ubuntu
ad57ef8d78d7: Download complete
105182bb5e8b: Download complete
511136ea3c5a: Download complete
73bd853d2ea5: Download complete
....
Status: Downloaded newer image for ubuntu
After the pull has completed use the docker image ls command (or the docker images
shorthand) to see the images that were pulled. The example below shows all the
ubuntu images that are present locally:
$ docker image ls --filter reference=ubuntu
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
ubuntu 22.04 8a3cdc4d1ad3 3 weeks ago 77.9MB
ubuntu jammy 8a3cdc4d1ad3 3 weeks ago 77.9MB
ubuntu 24.04 35a88802559d 6 weeks ago 78.1MB
ubuntu latest 35a88802559d 6 weeks ago 78.1MB
ubuntu noble 35a88802559d 6 weeks ago 78.1MB
Cancel a pull
Killing the docker pull process, for example by pressing CTRL-c while it is
running in a terminal, will terminate the pull operation.
$ docker pull ubuntu
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from library/ubuntu
a3ed95caeb02: Pulling fs layer
236608c7b546: Pulling fs layer
^C
The Engine terminates a pull operation when the connection between the daemon and the client (initiating the pull) is cut or lost for any reason or the command is manually terminated.