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Pulling an image to your container engine

With Podman Desktop, you can pull an image from a registry to your container engine.

Prerequisites​

  • The image is available in a registry.
  • If the registry or the image is not publicly available, you configured access to the registry on Podman Desktop in Settings > Registries.

Procedure​

  1. Go to Images from the left navigation pane.

  2. Click Pull. pull button

  3. Enter the image name, such as quay.io/podman/hello.

    note

    Prefer the fully qualified image name that specifies the registry over the short name, which might lead to registry resolution errors.

  4. Click Pull image. pull button

  5. Click Done.

Verification​

  1. View the pulled image on the same page. image pulled successfully
  2. Click the name of the image to view its summary.
  3. Optional: View the history of the image or inspect the image.