diff --git a/api-ref/source/containers.inc b/api-ref/source/containers.inc
index d2fb49a60..2eb278e94 100644
--- a/api-ref/source/containers.inc
+++ b/api-ref/source/containers.inc
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
  Manage Containers
 ===================
 
-Lists, creates, shows details for, stats, updates, deletes, starts, resize,
-stops, pauses, unpauses, restarts, renames, commits containers, and adds
-security group for specified container, gets logs of a container, displays
-the running processes in a container.
+Lists, creates, shows details for, stats, updates, deletes, starts, resizes,
+stops, pauses, unpauses, restarts, renames, commits containers, gets archive
+from container, puts archive to container, and adds security group for
+specified container, gets logs of a container, displays the running processes
+in a container.
 
 Create new container
 ====================
@@ -622,6 +623,95 @@ Response Example
    :language: javascript
 
 
+Get archive from  a container
+=============================
+
+.. rest_method:: GET /v1/containers/{container_ident}/get_archive?path={source_path}
+
+Get a tar archive of a resource in the filesystem of a container.
+
+Response Codes
+--------------
+
+.. rest_status_code:: success status.yaml
+
+   - 200
+
+.. rest_status_code:: error status.yaml
+
+   - 401
+   - 403
+   - 404
+   - 409
+
+Request
+-------
+
+.. rest_parameters:: parameters.yaml
+
+  - container_ident: container_ident
+  - source_path: source_path
+
+Response
+--------
+
+.. rest_parameters:: parameters.yaml
+
+  - data: data
+  - stat: stat
+
+Response Example
+----------------
+
+.. literalinclude:: samples/container-get-archive-resp.json
+   :language: javascript
+
+Put archive to a container
+==========================
+
+.. rest_method:: POST /v1/containers/{container_ident}/put_archive?path={destination_path}
+
+Upload a tar archive to be extracted to a path in the filesystem of container.
+
+Response Codes
+--------------
+
+.. rest_status_code:: success status.yaml
+
+   - 200
+
+.. rest_status_code:: error status.yaml
+
+   - 401
+   - 403
+   - 404
+   - 409
+
+Request
+-------
+
+.. rest_parameters:: parameters.yaml
+
+  - container_ident: container_ident
+  - destination_path: destination_path
+  - data: data
+
+Request Example
+----------------
+
+.. literalinclude:: samples/container-put-archive-req.json
+   :language: javascript
+
+Response
+--------
+
+This request does not return anything in the response body.
+
+.. rest_parameters:: parameters.yaml
+
+  - X-Openstack-Request-Id: request_id
+
+
 Add security group for specified container
 ==========================================
 
diff --git a/api-ref/source/parameters.yaml b/api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
index 8ccfa980d..e8b305463 100644
--- a/api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
+++ b/api-ref/source/parameters.yaml
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ host_ident:
   in: path
   required: true
   type: string
+destination_path:
+  description: |
+    The destination path in a container when putting archive to a container.
+  in: query
+  required: true
+  type: string
 force:
   description: |
     Specify to delete container forcefully.
@@ -65,6 +71,12 @@ since:
   in: query
   required: false
   type: string
+source_path:
+  description: |
+    The file path in a container when getting archive from a container.
+  in: query
+  required: true
+  type: string
 stderr:
   description: |
     Get standard error if True.
@@ -159,6 +171,12 @@ created_at:
   in: body
   required: true
   type: string
+data:
+  description: |
+    The content of the tar file which is got from a container or put to a container.
+  in: body
+  required: true
+  type: string
 disabled:
   description: |
      Whether or not this service is disabled or not.
@@ -330,6 +348,12 @@ services:
   in: body
   required: true
   type: array
+stat:
+  description: |
+    The stat information when doing get_archive.
+  in: body
+  required: true
+  type: string
 state:
   description: |
     The current state of Zun services.
diff --git a/api-ref/source/samples/container-get-archive-resp.json b/api-ref/source/samples/container-get-archive-resp.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..244d29147
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api-ref/source/samples/container-get-archive-resp.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+    "stat": {
+        "linkTarget": "",
+        "size": 129,
+        "mode": 493,
+        "name": "ip.sh",
+        "mtime": "2017-07-25T18:54:50-07:00"
+    },
+    "data": "ARCHIVE FILE DATA"
+}
diff --git a/api-ref/source/samples/container-put-archive-req.json b/api-ref/source/samples/container-put-archive-req.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4941879c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api-ref/source/samples/container-put-archive-req.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "data": "ARCHIVE FILE DATA"
+}