# Local-mode push a pre-built image?

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/local-mode-push-a-pre-built-image/35888>\
**Category:** balenaOS\
**Created:** [October 9, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/local-mode-push-a-pre-built-image/35888 "2019-10-09T00:14:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rjh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@rjh](https://forums.balena.io/u/rjh)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/local-mode-push-a-pre-built-image/35888/1 "2019-10-09T00:14:04Z")

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Hi!

Everyone at our little startup is an avid user of BalenaOS’s local mode for development, so we frequently find ourselves running `balena push <ip address>` to update our development devices.

Our devices are Raspberry Pi 3B+, not the fastest computer in the world. Building our Dockerfile takes them about 3 times as long as it does on my laptop by running `balena build`, and by now our image takes quite a while to build, especially when for some reason the caches don’t apply.

I [can use](https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/cli/#build-source)`balena build` to cross-build for a Pi3 from my Mac. Is there some way to push the resulting image to my local-mode device, allowing it to skip doing the build process itself?

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**Author:** ![karaxuna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@karaxuna](https://forums.balena.io/u/karaxuna)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/local-mode-push-a-pre-built-image/35888/3 "2019-10-09T08:30:08Z")

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Hi, `balena deploy` seems what you need. See docs: [https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/cli/#deploy-appname-image](https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/cli/#deploy-appname-image)

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**Author:** ![rjh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@rjh](https://forums.balena.io/u/rjh)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/local-mode-push-a-pre-built-image/35888/5 "2019-10-09T08:59:16Z")

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From my reading, that deploys the image to an entire application. Is there also a way to push the image to just a single device?

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**Author:** ![telphan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@telphan](https://forums.balena.io/u/telphan)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/local-mode-push-a-pre-built-image/35888/6 "2019-10-09T13:12:48Z")

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There is no direct way to push to a single device a pre-built image. We recommend you move this device to a new application and pushing there.

Kind regards  
Theodor