On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:07 AM, Tom McKay <thomasmckay redhat com> wrote:
> Perfect, thanks!
My pleasure!
> Overall I do think there is a need for this utility; has anyone else heard
> the need? Could it be part of the atomic command or are there utility
> scripts associated with skopeo and/or atomic?
I've not heard a specific need until this email. I tend to think that
mirror functionality should either be part of skopeo as a subcommand
or it's own tool which requires skopeo.
> For myself, I am enhancing (and accepting enhancement requests! ;)
> Foreman[1] / Satellite-6 to better handle images in a disconnected
> environment (very common). I'll use skopeo to export from a registry and
> then upload to the container image storage tool built into Foreman, Pulp[2].
> Foreman acts as a registry for these uploaded images. In connected cases
> Foreman can simply sync all of this information directly from the other
> registry.
>
> [1] https://theforeman.org/
> [2] https://pulpproject.org/
I think a good first step to see if it would fit skopeo would be to
open an issue up with the information. I believe some of the more
involved developers could give a better response in terms of if it
would make sense to live inside or outside skopeo proper.
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Stephen Milner <smilner redhat com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Tom McKay <thomasmckay redhat com> wrote:
>> > If I wanted to sneaker-net an image and all its tags and manifest lists,
>> > could I use skopeo? The goal would be to mirror a registry completely.
>> >
>> > As an example, consider docker.io/busybox which has schema1, schema2,
>> > and
>> > manifest lists.
>>
>> Hey Tom,
>>
>> You could but, from my understanding, it would require some scripting
>> of sorts. Keep in mind I didn't test this in terms of mirroring but it
>> seems like it would get you at least pretty close to the files you
>> need.
>>
>> You could start by inspecting the image in the original registry:
>>
>> skopeo inspect docker://docker.io/busybox
>>
>> This will provide you with json output that includes tags. For each
>> tag you would use copy to pull that specific image down locally into a
>> one of the available formats for loading later and pull the manifest.
>> A quick and dirty script to parse the tags from STDIN can be found at
>> https://gist.github.com/ashcrow/ .f327431cad90c26bbce94debd80a3e 74
>>
>> To get the manifests for each image you will run something like:
>>
>> skopeo inspect --raw docker://docker.io/busybox:$TAG > manifests/$TAG
>>
>> Note that you'll get either a v1 or v2 depending on what is stored on
>> the remote registry.
>>
>> You'd also want to use copy to actually get the image data itself.
>> Something like:
>>
>> skopeo copy docker://docker.io/busybox:$TAG oci:busybox-tmp:$TAG
>>
>> From here you'd move the blobs into the right directory structure from
>> busybox-tmp/blobs/sha256/$BLOBHASH -> busybox/blobs/sha256:$BLOBHASH
>> then clean up the busybox-tmp dir.
>>
>> This should get you pretty far in terms of getting what you need to
>> mirror an image from a registry. Again, keep in mind I didn't actually
>> test that this creates everything you need to be a mirror of an image
>> but at the very least it should get you started.
>>
>> HTH!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Milner
>>
>> Atomic | Red Hat | http://projectatomic.io/
>
>
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Thanks,
Steve Milner
Atomic | Red Hat | http://projectatomic.io/