Push a container image to a registry with podman push
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Documented steps
Authenticate first with `podman login REGISTRY` (writes to authfile) or pass one-off creds with `--creds=user:pass`.
Push an image from local storage: `podman push [options] image [destination]` (alias of podman image push); default destination transport is `docker`.
Push with a specific tag: `podman push myimage quay.io/username/myimage:latest`; the local image name can differ from the target.
Set the manifest format with `--format` (oci, v2s2, or v2s1); default compression is gzip (`--compression-format=gzip|zstd|zstd:chunked`, zstd level 1-20 default 3).
Capture the resulting digest to a file for reproducible deployment: `podman push --digestfile=/tmp/digest.txt image registry/repo:tag`.
Use a specific authfile if your creds are stored elsewhere: `podman push --authfile /path/to/auth.json image registry/repo:tag`.
Official docs: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-push.1.html
Known gotchas
Tags are mutable; to make a push reproducible pin on the digest returned with --digestfile rather than the tag.
`--tls-verify` defaults to true and is skipped only for registries marked insecure in containers-registries.conf.
`--disable-content-trust` is a NOOP (Docker compat flag, not supported by podman).
Signing/encryption flags (--sign-by, --encryption-key) are NOT available on remote podman clients; transport-local options like --cert-dir are also unavailable remotely.
The destination must include a host[:port]/namespace/repo for non-Hub targets; omitting the host sends to the default registry.
Pushes are retried 3 times by default with exponential backoff from 2s.
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