DOCKER(1)

💖 DOCKER(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is a page from the Docker User Manuals, and today we're hyperfixating on docker-plugin-create 🫶 it's giving "build your own plugin from scratch" and honestly? iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

docker-plugin-create — Create a plugin from a rootfs and configuration. Plugin data directory must contain config.json and rootfs directory.

no cap, that's the whole vibe. you bring a rootfs, you bring a config, the plugin gets born 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

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

okay so literally: you point it at a directory (that's your PLUGIN-DATA-DIR), and inside that directory there has to be a config.json file and a rootfs directory. that's the bare minimum. that's the whole entry requirement. it's giving "two-item dress code, no exceptions" 💅

then you give it a name — that's your PLUGIN — and boom, you have yourself a plugin. main character energy fr fr ✨

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• --compress[=false] — Compress the context using gzip

that's it. that's the one option. one (1) singular flag. she's lowkey minimal and highkey slaying for it 👑

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• docker-plugin(1)

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💀 friendly lil reminder bestie: if your plugin data directory is missing config.json or the rootfs directory, this is not gonna work. the description says it must contain them. that's not a suggestion, that's the rules 🙈

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and that's the whole page!! go forth and create plugins, you absolute legend 🌈

this masterpiece of documentation came to you courtesy of the Docker Community, dated Oct 2026, and it lives at the top of the page as DOCKER(1) 💖 iykyk ✨