Cannot import docker archive with more then one image

[chilicat]

It seems like that skopeo does not support to copy a docker-archive with more than one image to a registry

Example:

docker pull busybox:latest 
docker pull  alpine:latest
docker save alpine:latest busybox:latest -o test.tar

skopeo  copy docker-archive:./test.tar docker://my-registry:5000

FATA[0000] Error determining manifest MIME type for docker-archive:./test.tar: Unexpected tar manifest.json: expected 1 item, got 2 

It would be great to support that use-case.

[mtrmac]

Right; you can write docker-archive:./test.tar:alpine:latest, but that currently only results in a warning

docker-archive: references are not supported for sources (ignoring)

[chilicat]

What I'm actually looking for is to import all images with one command. The deployment process I'm implementing does not know about the images in the archive.

[mtrmac]

skopeo copy fundamentally works one image at a time; containers/image does not have a “repository of images” abstraction. #524 is somewhat moving in that direction, but it’s non-trivial.

A single container image is more or less everywhere the same kind of thing with the same semantics, but groups of images have very different semantics (gzipped archives where there is very high cost to setting them up; Docker repositories where some images are only reachable by digests which can’t be listed; arbitrary subdirectory structures; the very complex OCI nested indexes with quite unclear semantics) and it’s very unclear whether hiding all of that behind a single abstraction is viable.

[chilicat]

Yes, that looks like the feature I'm looking for. I will close the issue.
Thank you for your response.