diff --git a/pulp_container/app/modelresource.py b/pulp_container/app/modelresource.py
index dfd7e8f85..0116db57e 100644
--- a/pulp_container/app/modelresource.py
+++ b/pulp_container/app/modelresource.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 from pulp_container.app.models import (
     Blob,
+    ConfigBlob,
     ContainerRepository,
     ContainerPushRepository,
     Manifest,
@@ -60,6 +61,22 @@ class Meta:
         exclude = RepositoryResource.Meta.exclude + ("manifest_signing_service",)
 
 
+class ConfigBlobResource(BaseContentResource):
+    """
+    Resource for import/export of configblob entities
+    """
+
+    def set_up_queryset(self):
+        """
+        :return: ConfigBlobs specific to a specified repo-version.
+        """
+        return ConfigBlob.objects.filter(pk__in=self.repo_version.content).order_by("content_ptr_id")
+
+    class Meta:
+        model = ConfigBlob
+        import_id_fields = model.natural_key_fields()
+
+
 class BlobResource(BaseContentResource):
     """
     Resource for import/export of blob entities
@@ -89,7 +106,7 @@ class ManifestResource(BaseContentResource):
     config_blob = fields.Field(
         column_name="config_blob",
         attribute="config_blob",
-        widget=widgets.ForeignKeyWidget(Blob, field="digest"),
+        widget=widgets.ForeignKeyWidget(ConfigBlob, field="digest"),
     )
 
     def set_up_queryset(self):
@@ -179,6 +196,7 @@ class Meta:
 
 
 IMPORT_ORDER = [
+    ConfigBlobResource,
     BlobResource,
     ManifestResource,
     ManifestListManifestResource,
diff --git a/pulp_container/app/tasks/sync_stages.py b/pulp_container/app/tasks/sync_stages.py
index b97ce15b1..e2833c557 100644
--- a/pulp_container/app/tasks/sync_stages.py
+++ b/pulp_container/app/tasks/sync_stages.py
@@ -351,14 +351,13 @@ async def handle_blobs(self, manifest_dc, content_data):
         for layer in content_data.get("layers") or content_data.get("fsLayers"):
             if not self._include_layer(layer):
                 continue
-            blob_dc, _ = await self.create_blob(layer)
+            blob_dc = self.create_blob(layer)
             manifest_dc.extra_data["blob_dcs"].append(blob_dc)
             await self.put(blob_dc)
         layer = content_data.get("config", None)
         if layer:
-            blob_dc, config_blob_dc = await self.create_blob(layer, deferred_download=False)
+            config_blob_dc = await self.create_config_blob(layer)
             manifest_dc.extra_data["config_blob_dc"] = config_blob_dc
-            await self.put(blob_dc)
             await self.put(config_blob_dc)
 
     def create_tagged_manifest_list(self, tag_name, saved_artifact, manifest_list_data, media_type):
@@ -517,36 +516,37 @@ async def create_listed_manifest(self, manifest_data):
         )
         return {"manifest_dc": man_dc, "platform": platform, "content_data": content_data}
 
-    async def create_config_blob(self, blob_data, blob_url, digest, blob):
-        config_blob_dc = None
-        mediaType = blob_data.get("mediaType")
-
-        if mediaType in [MEDIA_TYPE.CONFIG_BLOB, MEDIA_TYPE.CONFIG_BLOB_OCI]:
-            downloader = self.remote.get_downloader(url=blob_url)
-            response = await downloader.run(extra_data={"headers": V2_ACCEPT_HEADERS})
-            with open(response.path, "rb") as content_file:
-                raw_data = content_file.read()
-            content_data = json.loads(raw_data)
-            config_blob = ConfigBlob(
-                data = raw_data.decode("utf-8"),
-                digest = digest,
-                architecture=content_data.get("architecture"),
-                os=content_data.get("os"),
-                created=content_data.get("created"),
-                author=content_data.get("author", ""),
-                os_version=content_data.get("os_version", ""),
-                os_features=content_data.get("os_features", ""),
-                variant=content_data.get("variant", ""),
-                rootfs=content_data.get("rootfs", {}),
-                config=content_data.get("config", {}),
-                history=content_data.get("history", {}),
-            )
-            blob = Blob(digest=digest)
-            config_blob_dc = DeclarativeContent(content=config_blob)
+    async def create_config_blob(self, blob_data):
+        digest = blob_data.get("digest") or blob_data.get("blobSum")
+        relative_url = "/v2/{name}/blobs/{digest}".format(
+            name=self.remote.namespaced_upstream_name, digest=digest
+        )
+        blob_url = urljoin(self.remote.url, relative_url)
+
+        downloader = self.remote.get_downloader(url=blob_url)
+        response = await downloader.run(extra_data={"headers": V2_ACCEPT_HEADERS})
+        with open(response.path, "rb") as content_file:
+            raw_data = content_file.read()
+        content_data = json.loads(raw_data)
+        config_blob = ConfigBlob(
+            data = raw_data.decode("utf-8"),
+            digest = digest,
+            architecture=content_data.get("architecture"),
+            os=content_data.get("os"),
+            created=content_data.get("created"),
+            author=content_data.get("author", ""),
+            os_version=content_data.get("os_version", ""),
+            os_features=content_data.get("os_features", ""),
+            variant=content_data.get("variant", ""),
+            rootfs=content_data.get("rootfs", {}),
+            config=content_data.get("config", {}),
+            history=content_data.get("history", {}),
+        )
+        config_blob_dc = DeclarativeContent(content=config_blob)
 
-        return blob, config_blob_dc
+        return config_blob_dc
 
-    async def create_blob(self, blob_data, deferred_download=True):
+    def create_blob(self, blob_data, deferred_download=True):
         """
         Create blob.
 
@@ -571,10 +571,9 @@ async def create_blob(self, blob_data, deferred_download=True):
             deferred_download=deferred_download and self.deferred_download,
         )
 
-        blob, config_blob_dc = await self.create_config_blob(blob_data, blob_url, digest, blob)
         blob_dc = DeclarativeContent(content=blob, d_artifacts=[da])
 
-        return blob_dc, config_blob_dc
+        return blob_dc
 
     async def create_signatures(self, man_dc, signature_source):
         """