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Go library and CLIs for working with container registries

18 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 3 stories, 15 comments · first 2018-04-16 · latest 2026-02-10

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    Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments
    story by louis_w_gk · 2026-02-10 · 29 comments
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    Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments
    story by louis_w_gk · 2026-02-04 · 2 comments
  3. …Red Hat's Skopeo[1]. It might be slightly more low-level than most developers want, though. [0]: https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/v0.20.7/... [1]: https://github.com/containers/skopeo
    comment by jzelinskie · 2026-01-02 · in List, inspect and explore OCI container images, their layers and contents
  4. …is ever added to rules_img, I expect it to have the same performance as other build tools. [0]: https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd... [1]: https://regclient.org/cli/regctl/image/mod/
    comment by bmitch3020 · 2025-12-25 · in A faster path to container images in Bazel
  5. …the utility that rules_oci uses to upload containers does not yet support uploading zstd layers. https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pull/1827
    comment by tkinz27 · 2025-12-24 · in A faster path to container images in Bazel
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    Crane: Tool for interacting with remote images and registries
    story by thunderbong · 2024-07-29 · 0 comments
  7. …in the registry, so no docker needed (though it's still useful for creating the original image). https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd... (updated: better link)
    comment by miquong · 2024-01-08 · in Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer contents and more
  8. …a look. Crane doesn't pull the images into a local Docker library for re-tagging and re-pushing. https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd...
    comment by alexellisuk · 2023-03-25 · in We’re no longer sunsetting the free team plan
  9. …copy images from Docker Hub to e.g. GitHub's Container Registry, in case you want to migrate: https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/tree/main/cmd...
    comment by Simran-B · 2023-03-16 · in Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
  10. …more visibility into what they're doing, since they're not able to do "whatever the user wants". 1. https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry is a Go module to interact with images in the registry and in tarballs and layouts, in the…
    comment by ImJasonH · 2023-02-06 · in Crafting container images without Dockerfiles
  11. For static binaries "crane append" + "crane push" eliminate the need for "docker build". crane: https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd...
    comment by dottedmag · 2023-02-06 · in Crafting container images without Dockerfiles
  12. …https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/pull/822 [1] Proof of concept in the `crane` tool: https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pull/960 [2] https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd...
    comment by ImJasonH · 2021-06-08 · in Keeping Up with Docker Official Images
  13. …makes it _really_ difficult to build and consume reproducible images (for a variety of reasons, see https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/issues/895#is... and https://twitter.com/lorenc_dan/status/1343921451792003073 for a…
    comment by jonjonsonjr · 2021-02-12 · in How .NET container images are maintained
  14. …the entire manifest, instead relying on just headers to detect that a change has occurred. [0] https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry [1] https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/tag/v6.7.0
    comment by jacques_chester · 2020-11-03 · in AWS pre-announces public container image registry
  15. …entire thing and fully understand it. It only cheats in the container registry handling where it pulls in github.com/google/go-containerregistry and for the network setup where it uses github.com/vishvananda/netlink. The rest is done in…
    comment by donio · 2020-06-18 · in Gocker: Docker implemented in 1.3k lines of Go
  16. …image (or keep it based on scratch) without requiring privileges at all, using `ko publish`. [0] https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/master/c... [1] https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/master/c...
    comment by ImJasonH · 2018-12-18 · in Show HN: Goldpinger – Visualize Kubernetes cluster connectivity
  17. …so much container-related work coming out of Google right now that I am struggling to keep up. [0] https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry
    comment by jacques_chester · 2018-04-30 · in Unprivileged Docker Builds – A Proof of Concept
  18. …to interact with the registry without docker or the docker CLI, which we use in these projects https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry https://github.com/google/containerregistry - Our team has built something exactly like you're…
    comment by rckrd · 2018-04-16 · in Kaniko: Build container images in Kubernetes