NAME

       buildah-add - Add the contents of a file, URL, or a directory to a container.

SYNOPSIS

       buildah add [options] container src [[src ...] dest]

DESCRIPTION

       Adds  the  contents  of  a  file,  URL,  or a directory to a container's working directory or a specified
       location in the container.  If a local source file appears to be an archive, its contents  are  extracted
       and  added  instead  of  the  archive  file  itself.   If a local directory is specified as a source, its
       contents are copied to the destination.

OPTIONS

       --add-history

       Add an entry to the history which will note the digest of the added content.  Defaults to false.

       Note: You can also override the default value of --add-history by setting the BUILDAH_HISTORY environment
       variable. export BUILDAH_HISTORY=true

       --chmod permissions

       Sets the access permissions of the destination content. Accepts the numerical format.

       --chown owner:group

       Sets the user and group ownership of the destination content.

       --contextdir directory

       Build context directory. Specifying a context directory  causes  Buildah  to  chroot  into  that  context
       directory. This means copying files pointed at by symbolic links outside of the chroot will fail.

       --from containerOrImage

       Use  the  root directory of the specified working container or image as the root directory when resolving
       absolute source paths and the path of the context directory.  If an image needs  to  be  pulled,  options
       recognized by buildah pull can be used.

       --ignorefile file

       Path to an alternative .containerignore (.dockerignore) file. Requires --contextdir be specified.

       --quiet, -q

       Refrain from printing a digest of the added content.

       --retry attempts

       Number of times to retry in case of failure when performing pull of images from registry.

       Defaults to 3.

       --retry-delay duration

       Duration of delay between retry attempts in case of failure when performing pull of images from registry.

       Defaults to 2s.

EXAMPLE

       buildah add containerID '/myapp/app.conf' '/myapp/app.conf'

       buildah add --chown myuser:mygroup containerID '/myapp/app.conf' '/myapp/app.conf'

       buildah add --chmod 660 containerID '/myapp/app.conf' '/myapp/app.conf'

       buildah add containerID '/home/myuser/myproject.go'

       buildah add containerID '/home/myuser/myfiles.tar' '/tmp'

       buildah add containerID '/tmp/workingdir' '/tmp/workingdir'

       buildah add containerID 'https://github.com/containers/buildah/blob/main/README.md' '/tmp'

       buildah add containerID 'passwd' 'certs.d' /etc

FILES

   .containerignore
       If  a  .containerignore  or  .dockerignore  file  exists  in the context directory, buildah add reads its
       contents. If both exist, then .containerignore is used.

       When the --ignorefile option is specified Buildah reads it and uses it to decide which content to exclude
       when copying content into the working container.

       Users can specify a series of Unix shell glob patterns in an ignore file to identify files/directories to
       exclude.

       Buildah supports a special wildcard string ** which matches any number of directories  (including  zero).
       For example, */.go will exclude all files that end with .go that are found in all directories.

       Example .containerignore/.dockerignore file:

       # here are files we want to exclude
       */*.c
       **/output*
       src

       */*.c  Excludes files and directories whose names end with .c in any top level subdirectory. For example,
       the source file include/rootless.c.

       **/output* Excludes files and directories starting with output from any directory.

       src Excludes files named src and the directory src as well as any content in it.

       Lines starting with ! (exclamation mark) can be used to make exceptions to exclusions. The  following  is
       an example .containerignore file that uses this mechanism:

       *.doc
       !Help.doc

       Exclude all doc files except Help.doc when copying content into the container.

       This functionality is compatible with the handling of .containerignore files described here:

       https://github.com/containers/buildah/blob/main/docs/containerignore.5.md

SEE ALSO

       buildah(1), containerignore(5)

buildah                                            April 2021                                     buildah-add(1)