The current process I have for tagging an image in the same registry is below:
docker pull image:1
docker tag image:1 image:2
docker push image:2
Is there a way for this to be done without having to pull down the image before tagging. Would be "seamless" if I was able to refer to an image, tag and push to the reg in less steps.
According a Docker guy in this post from Docker forums, it's not possible. Also:
If the layers already exist and you docker push with a different tag
Docker will figure out there is nothing to push and report Layer
already exists for those layers.
Related
As of now, I am learning Docker. This reference has mentioned two ways of pulling an image from the Docker registry. Can anyone explain this in simple terms?
Does this mean that we cannot get updates on a pulled image if we use docker image pull command?
They are the same command. From the documentation you linked:
To download a particular image, or set of images (i.e., a repository), use docker image pull (or the docker pull shorthand).
There are many "shortand commands" like:
docker push for docker image push
docker run for docker container run
...
What is the difference between docker pull and docker image pull commands?
None.
Can anyone explain this in simple terms?
They are the same.
Does this mean that we cannot get updates on a pulled image if we use docker image pull command?
No.
Also https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-pull-imagename-vs-docker-image-pull-imagename/59283
On a private registry (myregistry.com), say I have an image tagged with 'v1.2.3'. I then push it by:
docker push myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3
If I want to associate another tag, say 'staging', and push that tag to my registry, I can:
docker tag myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 myregistry.com/myimage:staging
docker push myregistry.com/myimage:staging
Though this works, the second docker push still runs through each image, attempting to push it (albeit skipping upload). Is there a better way just to add a remote tag?
The way you've stated, docker tag ...; docker push ... is the best way to add a tag to an image and share it.
In the specific example you've given, both tags were in the same repo (myregistry.com/myimage). In this case you can just docker push myregistry.com/myimage and by default the docker daemon will push all the tags for the repo at the same time, saving the iteration over layers for shared layers.
You can use the same process (docker tag ...; docker push ...) to tag images between repositories as well, e.g.
docker tag myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 otherregistry.com/theirimage:v2
docker push otherregistry.com/theirimage
You can achieve this with docker buildx imagetools create
docker buildx imagetools create myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 --tag myregistry.com/myimage:staging
this will simply download the image manifest of myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 and re-tag (and push) it as myregistry.com/myimage:staging
NOTE: this will also retain the multi-platform manifest list when you "re-tag" (e.g. when your image is build for both linux/arm64 and linux/amd64). Where as the conventional docker pull/push strategy will only retain the image manifest for the platform/architecture of the system you do the pull/push from.
pull/tag/push method will have time&network costs, you can just remotely tag your image with:
only for changing TAG the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/38362476/8430173 works , but I wanted to change the repository name too.
by many thanks to this, I changed the repoName too!
(by help of his Github project):
1- get manifests (in v2 schema)
2- post every layer.digest in the new repo
3- post config.layer
4- put whole manifest to new repo
details:
1- GET manifest from reg:5000/v2/{oldRepo}/manifests/{oldtag} withaccept header:application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json
2- for every layer : POST reg:5000/v2/{newRepo}/blobs/uploads/?mount={layer.digest}&from={oldRepoNameWithaoutTag}
3- POST reg:5000/v2/{newRepo}/blobs/uploads/?mount={config.digest}&from={oldRepoNameWithaoutTag}
4- PUT reg:5000/v2/{newRepo}/manifests/{newTag} with content-type header:application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json and body from step 1 response
5- enjoy!
For single platform images, you can use
docker pull repo:oldtag
docker tag repo:oldtag repo:newtag
docker push repo:newtag
However, there are a few downsides.
You pull all the layers even if you don't need to run the image locally.
You are dereferencing multi-platform images to your local platform.
This can be done with curl, especially if you are in the same repository (when you go across repositories, you also need to copy all the blobs). However, that has two challenges of its own:
You need to accept all of the possible media types for the image you are pulling, track the media type you received, and use that same media type when pushing the manifest back to the registry. There are at least 6 media types I'm familiar with:
a signed and unsigned docker schema v1
the common manifest and manifest list in docker schema v2
the OCI image and index
If you go across repositories, you need to parse the manifest for the included blobs, which can be recursive for docker manifest lists and OCI indexes. You may be able to do a server side blob mount to avoid pulling and pushing the blob, but that will depend on the server support. And we're also going to see anonymous blob mounts come to registries, which allows a blob mount even if you don't know the source repo on that registry (useful for everyone pushing to a cloud registry with an image based on an official docker image from Docker Hub).
Authorization gets complicated, particularly if you have bearer tokens to request and maintain between commands.
The solution I'd recommend is using a tool that handles the registry API for you. I've been working on my own tooling for this, regclient, and there are other similar projects like Google's crane and RedHat's skopeo. These should each handle the media types, copying blobs when needed, and authorization issues that would complicate the curl command.
As an example with regclient's regctl command, you'd run:
regctl image copy repo:oldtag repo:newtag
With google's crane you just do
crane tag myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 staging
It works with both docker images and OCI images, no image is downloaded locally and it even skips the layer verifications, as they are guaranteed to already be in the repository.
It's even available in a docker image: gcr.io/go-containerregistry/crane
Note that there are other similar tools, like regctl or skopeo
There is a simpler method with the new experimental manifest Docker commands. It only requires downloading and uploading the manifest file (JSON overview) of an image. The commands below have been tested with the GitLab registry. First build and push a Docker image in some previous stage:
docker build -t registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-a> .
docker push registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-a>
Then at a later stage where the image has not been pulled:
docker manifest create registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-b> \
registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-a>
docker manifest push registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-b>
You can then pull the image with the new tag. The first step did not seem to work with public Docker Hub images, but any suggestions are welcome. Additionally, to see the manifest itself, run:
docker manifest inspect registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-a>
I am really new at this Docker stuff, and even newer at Docker Hub, so please bear with me …
I have created a data container to use with my docker image (specifically, a data container to store data for a running mssql-server-lnux image). I know where it is on my local system.
I have a newly created account on Docker Hub and I think I want to push the data container on the hub. I say I think because I’m not sure that it’s the right way to go about it: I want to be able to use the data container from different machines.
If what I have said so far is in the right direction, then how do I push the docker image to the Hub, and how do I then access it later?
You can't push containers, only images, the distinction is important.
Image is akin to a class of your container, and container is essentially an instance of your image.
So if you want to push to share your database then it's not a good idea - you would have to docker commit first and this would get ugly really fast.
But if you just want to start new instances of your mysql on different machines with fresh data containers (there will be no data initially) then go ahead and push the data container image.
Hope this helps.
Okay, here are few steps. Please check if this helps.
Tag your image first. Let's say your image name is 'myapplication' and your docker hub user name is 'dockerhubusername'.
$ docker tag myapplication dockerhubusername/myapplication
Login to docker hub using. Enter user name like 'dockerhubusername' and then password of docker hub account.
$ docker login
Now push command.
$ docker push dockerhubusername/myapplication
Now, login to your docker hub and check if you have image there. Remember, images are pushed to registry/repository like dockerhub not containers.
Assuming you have tagged your image,
Use docker login to configure your docker hub credentials and use docker push to push your image to dockerhub.
$ docker login
$ docker push dockerhub_username/mssql-server-lnux
If you have not yet tagged the image,
$ docker tag mssql-server-lnux dockerhub_username/mssql-server-lnux
To access your image later,
$ docker pull dockerhub_username/mssql-server-lnux
References
Docker Pull
Docker Login
I read the tutorial in this,and it show me can use these commands to pull image to docker registry,like that:
docker pull ubuntu && docker tag ubuntu localhost:5000/batman/ubuntu
docker push localhost:5000/batman/ubuntu
I want to know whether I need to tag already image when I pull image to registry. Is it just only way to pull image to docker registry?
You always need to tag your images first with a tag containing repository information. Then you can push them to your private registry. Please refer also to this blogpost.
On a private registry (myregistry.com), say I have an image tagged with 'v1.2.3'. I then push it by:
docker push myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3
If I want to associate another tag, say 'staging', and push that tag to my registry, I can:
docker tag myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 myregistry.com/myimage:staging
docker push myregistry.com/myimage:staging
Though this works, the second docker push still runs through each image, attempting to push it (albeit skipping upload). Is there a better way just to add a remote tag?
The way you've stated, docker tag ...; docker push ... is the best way to add a tag to an image and share it.
In the specific example you've given, both tags were in the same repo (myregistry.com/myimage). In this case you can just docker push myregistry.com/myimage and by default the docker daemon will push all the tags for the repo at the same time, saving the iteration over layers for shared layers.
You can use the same process (docker tag ...; docker push ...) to tag images between repositories as well, e.g.
docker tag myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 otherregistry.com/theirimage:v2
docker push otherregistry.com/theirimage
You can achieve this with docker buildx imagetools create
docker buildx imagetools create myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 --tag myregistry.com/myimage:staging
this will simply download the image manifest of myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 and re-tag (and push) it as myregistry.com/myimage:staging
NOTE: this will also retain the multi-platform manifest list when you "re-tag" (e.g. when your image is build for both linux/arm64 and linux/amd64). Where as the conventional docker pull/push strategy will only retain the image manifest for the platform/architecture of the system you do the pull/push from.
pull/tag/push method will have time&network costs, you can just remotely tag your image with:
only for changing TAG the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/38362476/8430173 works , but I wanted to change the repository name too.
by many thanks to this, I changed the repoName too!
(by help of his Github project):
1- get manifests (in v2 schema)
2- post every layer.digest in the new repo
3- post config.layer
4- put whole manifest to new repo
details:
1- GET manifest from reg:5000/v2/{oldRepo}/manifests/{oldtag} withaccept header:application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json
2- for every layer : POST reg:5000/v2/{newRepo}/blobs/uploads/?mount={layer.digest}&from={oldRepoNameWithaoutTag}
3- POST reg:5000/v2/{newRepo}/blobs/uploads/?mount={config.digest}&from={oldRepoNameWithaoutTag}
4- PUT reg:5000/v2/{newRepo}/manifests/{newTag} with content-type header:application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json and body from step 1 response
5- enjoy!
For single platform images, you can use
docker pull repo:oldtag
docker tag repo:oldtag repo:newtag
docker push repo:newtag
However, there are a few downsides.
You pull all the layers even if you don't need to run the image locally.
You are dereferencing multi-platform images to your local platform.
This can be done with curl, especially if you are in the same repository (when you go across repositories, you also need to copy all the blobs). However, that has two challenges of its own:
You need to accept all of the possible media types for the image you are pulling, track the media type you received, and use that same media type when pushing the manifest back to the registry. There are at least 6 media types I'm familiar with:
a signed and unsigned docker schema v1
the common manifest and manifest list in docker schema v2
the OCI image and index
If you go across repositories, you need to parse the manifest for the included blobs, which can be recursive for docker manifest lists and OCI indexes. You may be able to do a server side blob mount to avoid pulling and pushing the blob, but that will depend on the server support. And we're also going to see anonymous blob mounts come to registries, which allows a blob mount even if you don't know the source repo on that registry (useful for everyone pushing to a cloud registry with an image based on an official docker image from Docker Hub).
Authorization gets complicated, particularly if you have bearer tokens to request and maintain between commands.
The solution I'd recommend is using a tool that handles the registry API for you. I've been working on my own tooling for this, regclient, and there are other similar projects like Google's crane and RedHat's skopeo. These should each handle the media types, copying blobs when needed, and authorization issues that would complicate the curl command.
As an example with regclient's regctl command, you'd run:
regctl image copy repo:oldtag repo:newtag
With google's crane you just do
crane tag myregistry.com/myimage:v1.2.3 staging
It works with both docker images and OCI images, no image is downloaded locally and it even skips the layer verifications, as they are guaranteed to already be in the repository.
It's even available in a docker image: gcr.io/go-containerregistry/crane
Note that there are other similar tools, like regctl or skopeo
There is a simpler method with the new experimental manifest Docker commands. It only requires downloading and uploading the manifest file (JSON overview) of an image. The commands below have been tested with the GitLab registry. First build and push a Docker image in some previous stage:
docker build -t registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-a> .
docker push registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-a>
Then at a later stage where the image has not been pulled:
docker manifest create registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-b> \
registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-a>
docker manifest push registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-b>
You can then pull the image with the new tag. The first step did not seem to work with public Docker Hub images, but any suggestions are welcome. Additionally, to see the manifest itself, run:
docker manifest inspect registry.gitlab.com/<group>/<project>/<image-name>:<tag-a>