Leveraging Container Registry APIs for your benefit.

If you have ever run docker pull or pulled a container using the favorite container runtime tool of your choice, you’ve probably interacted with a container registry. A container registry does not only provide mechanisms to store and distribute container images, it also exposes APIs that clients can use to perform other actions like fetching the container’s metadata without pulling the entire container. At work, I had a problem to solve, which is when I thought why not leverage these APIs to solve my problem. In this post we’ll see how I leveraged the Container Registry APIs for my benefit and possibly how you the reader can use it as well. ...

November 27, 2024 · 9 min · 1800 words · Vasuper