[scl.org] Image naming for centos-based images

Jim Perrin jperrin at centos.org
Wed Oct 21 21:39:28 UTC 2015



On 10/21/2015 04:10 PM, Brian Gollaher wrote:

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> My assumption was that container names would be consistent.  Where we
> have images built on rhel7 base that run on rhel7 and rhel8 hosts (or
> centos7 and centos8 hosts), how do identify that the image is built with
> rhel7 base?


We're trying to make them consistent at least in the community space,
without making them needlessly complex or redundant. To your question, I
would posit that in the community space, it doesn't matter. The
container users simply aren't interested in whether they're based on
fedora 21 or fedora 22. The users are after the application, not the OS.
The OS itself is largely invisible in the container ecosystem except as
a host or base container.

>From the community space, neither fedora nor centos currently create
duplicate containers distinguished by distro version, nor has either
party expressed interest in doing so during these discussions.


In the business case for RH, this could easily be accomplished by
namespacing per release, registry.access.redhat.com:rhel7/foo, with a
link to the rhel/foo-rhel7 if the BU requires it.



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