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Author SHA1 Message Date
Kenfe-Mickael Laventure ab9c4c31d6 Fix dist socket parameter
It was renamed to address.

Signed-off-by: Kenfe-Mickael Laventure <mickael.laventure@gmail.com>
2017-04-10 09:37:43 -07:00
Kenfe-Mickael Laventure c5843b7615 Initial windows runtime work
Signed-off-by: Kenfe-Mickael Laventure <mickael.laventure@gmail.com>
2017-04-07 09:20:44 -07:00
Stephen J Day 8c74da3983
cmd/dist, cmd/ctr: move image store access to GRPC
With this changeset, image store access is now moved to completely
accessible over GRPC. No clients manipulate the image store database
directly and the GRPC client is fully featured. The metadata database is
now managed by the daemon and access coordinated via services.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-04-04 10:35:55 -07:00
Michael Crosby 4f2b443a27 Rewrite imports for new github org
This rewrites the Go imports after switching to the new github org.

Signed-off-by: Michael Crosby <crosbymichael@gmail.com>
2017-04-03 14:05:44 -07:00
Kenfe-Mickaël Laventure 2cf8e5ac9d Merge pull request #676 from stevvooe/delete-image
cmd/dist, images: allow image delete
2017-03-31 14:28:37 -07:00
Stephen J Day cc983be17a
cmd/dist, images: allow image delete
This adds very simple deletion of images by name. We still need to
consider the approach to handling image name, so this may change. For
the time being, it allows one to delete an image entry in the metadata
database.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-31 12:49:44 -07:00
unclejack 7b4d238ee3 archive,cmd,images: clean up some code
Signed-off-by: Cristian Staretu <cristian.staretu@gmail.com>
2017-03-30 11:41:22 +03:00
unclejack e91d6805af archive,cmd,fs: return err directly
Signed-off-by: Cristian Staretu <cristian.staretu@gmail.com>
2017-03-30 11:32:13 +03:00
Stephen J Day e1a361bff2
cmd/dist, remotes: break out docker resolver
Allow usage of the experimental docker resolver as a package. There are
very few changes to the consuming code, demonstrating the effectiveness
of the abstraction. This move will allow future contributions to a more
featured resolver implementation.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-22 14:14:01 -07:00
Stephen J Day 1f21fb7f8b
cmd/dist: show real image size in list
As a demonstration of the power of the visitor implementation, we now
report the image size in the `dist images` command. This is the size of
the packed resources as would be pushed into a remote. A similar method
could be added to calculate the unpacked size.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-22 13:53:58 -07:00
Stephen J Day 39da6ff879
images: move image package to images
Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-21 17:36:37 -07:00
Stephen J Day e53539c58f
cmd/dist, cmd/ctr: end to end image pull
With this changeset, we now have a proof of concept of end to end pull.
Up to this point, the relationship between subsystems has been somewhat
theoretical. We now leverage fetching, the snapshot drivers, the rootfs
service, image metadata and the execution service, validating the proposed
model for containerd. There are a few caveats, including the need to move some
of the access into GRPC services, but the basic components are there.

The first command we will cover here is `dist pull`. This is the analog
of `docker pull` and `git pull`. It performs a full resource fetch for
an image and unpacks the root filesystem into the snapshot drivers. An
example follows:

``` console
$ sudo ./bin/dist pull docker.io/library/redis:latest
docker.io/library/redis:latest:                                                   resolved       |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
manifest-sha256:4c8fb09e8d634ab823b1c125e64f0e1ceaf216025aa38283ea1b42997f1e8059: done           |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
layer-sha256:3b281f2bcae3b25c701d53a219924fffe79bdb74385340b73a539ed4020999c4:    done           |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
config-sha256:e4a35914679d05d25e2fccfd310fde1aa59ffbbf1b0b9d36f7b03db5ca0311b0:   done           |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
layer-sha256:4b7726832aec75f0a742266c7190c4d2217492722dfd603406208eaa902648d8:    done           |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
layer-sha256:338a7133395941c85087522582af182d2f6477dbf54ba769cb24ec4fd91d728f:    done           |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
layer-sha256:83f12ff60ff1132d1e59845e26c41968406b4176c1a85a50506c954696b21570:    done           |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
layer-sha256:693502eb7dfbc6b94964ae66ebc72d3e32facd981c72995b09794f1e87bac184:    done           |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
layer-sha256:622732cddc347afc9360b4b04b46c6f758191a1dc73d007f95548658847ee67e:    done           |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
layer-sha256:19a7e34366a6f558336c364693df538c38307484b729a36fede76432789f084f:    done           |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
elapsed: 1.6 s                                                                    total:   0.0 B (0.0 B/s)
INFO[0001] unpacking rootfs
```

Note that we haven't integrated rootfs unpacking into the status output, but we
pretty much have what is in docker today (:P). We can see the result of our pull
with the following:

```console
$ sudo ./bin/dist images
REF                            TYPE                                                 DIGEST                                                                  SIZE
docker.io/library/redis:latest application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json sha256:4c8fb09e8d634ab823b1c125e64f0e1ceaf216025aa38283ea1b42997f1e8059 1.8 kB
```

The above shows that we have an image called "docker.io/library/redis:latest"
mapped to the given digest marked with a specific format. We get the size of
the manifest right now, not the full image, but we can add more as we need it.
For the most part, this is all that is needed, but a few tweaks to the model
for naming may need to be added. Specifically, we may want to index under a few
different names, including those qualified by hash or matched by tag versions.
We can do more work in this area as we develop the metadata store.

The name shown above can then be used to run the actual container image. We can
do this with the following command:

```console
$ sudo ./bin/ctr run --id foo docker.io/library/redis:latest /usr/local/bin/redis-server
1:C 17 Mar 17:20:25.316 # Warning: no config file specified, using the default config. In order to specify a config file use /usr/local/bin/redis-server /path/to/redis.conf
1:M 17 Mar 17:20:25.317 * Increased maximum number of open files to 10032 (it was originally set to 1024).
                _._
           _.-``__ ''-._
      _.-``    `.  `_.  ''-._           Redis 3.2.8 (00000000/0) 64 bit
  .-`` .-```.  ```\/    _.,_ ''-._
 (    '      ,       .-`  | `,    )     Running in standalone mode
 |`-._`-...-` __...-.``-._|'` _.-'|     Port: 6379
 |    `-._   `._    /     _.-'    |     PID: 1
  `-._    `-._  `-./  _.-'    _.-'
 |`-._`-._    `-.__.-'    _.-'_.-'|
 |    `-._`-._        _.-'_.-'    |           http://redis.io
  `-._    `-._`-.__.-'_.-'    _.-'
 |`-._`-._    `-.__.-'    _.-'_.-'|
 |    `-._`-._        _.-'_.-'    |
  `-._    `-._`-.__.-'_.-'    _.-'
      `-._    `-.__.-'    _.-'
          `-._        _.-'
              `-.__.-'

1:M 17 Mar 17:20:25.326 # WARNING: The TCP backlog setting of 511 cannot be enforced because /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn is set to the lower value of 128.
1:M 17 Mar 17:20:25.326 # Server started, Redis version 3.2.8
1:M 17 Mar 17:20:25.326 # WARNING overcommit_memory is set to 0! Background save may fail under low memory condition. To fix this issue add 'vm.overcommit_memory = 1' to /etc/sysctl.conf and then reboot or run the command 'sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1' for this to take effect.
1:M 17 Mar 17:20:25.326 # WARNING you have Transparent Huge Pages (THP) support enabled in your kernel. This will create latency and memory usage issues with Redis. To fix this issue run the command 'echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled' as root, and add it to your /etc/rc.local in order to retain the setting after a reboot. Redis must be restarted after THP is disabled.
1:M 17 Mar 17:20:25.326 * The server is now ready to accept connections on port 6379
```

Wow! So, now we are running `redis`!

There are still a few things to work out. Notice that we have to specify the
command as part of the arguments to `ctr run`. This is because are not yet
reading the image config and converting it to an OCI runtime config. With the
base laid in this PR, adding such functionality should be straightforward.

While this is a _little_ messy, this is great progress. It should be easy
sailing from here.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-21 13:08:23 -07:00
Stephen J Day 5a3151eefc
cmd/dist, image, remotes: introduce image handlers
With this PR, we introduce the concept of image handlers. They support
walking a tree of image resource descriptors for doing various tasks
related to processing them. Handlers can be dispatched sequentially or
in parallel and can be stacked for various effects.

The main functionality we introduce here is parameterized fetch without
coupling format resolution to the process itself. Two important
handlers, `remotes.FetchHandler` and `image.ChildrenHandler` can be
composed to implement recursive fetch with full status reporting. The
approach can also be modified to filter based on platform or other
constraints, unlocking a lot of possibilities.

This also includes some light refactoring in the fetch command, in
preparation for submission of end to end pull.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-17 15:47:50 -07:00
Stephen Day bb3fbded9c Merge pull request #632 from dmcgowan/rootfs-fixes
Fix rootfs digest computation
2017-03-16 12:04:49 -07:00
Akihiro Suda 6089c1525b new package: compression (ported from docker/pkg/archive)
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda <suda.akihiro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2017-03-16 05:29:27 +00:00
Derek McGowan 4492a2cee3
Fix rootfs digest computation
Compute digest from uncompressed archive.
Properly propagate error on unpack.
Rename dist cmd commands to match command name.

Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcgstyle.net> (github: dmcgowan)
2017-03-15 17:17:25 -07:00
Derek McGowan 212efa578a
Remove get function from rootfs
The service can use the snapshotter directly to get the rootfs.
Removed debug line for mount response.

Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcgstyle.net> (github: dmcgowan)
2017-03-15 16:32:21 -07:00
Derek McGowan b1bc82726f
Rename prepare to unpack and init to prepare
Unpack and prepare better map to the actions done by rootfs.

Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcgstyle.net> (github: dmcgowan)
2017-03-15 16:32:21 -07:00
Derek McGowan 3a20dd41d5
Add init subcommand to rootfs
Init command gets the mounts for a given chain id and
outputs a mount command.

Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcgstyle.net> (github: dmcgowan)
2017-03-15 16:32:21 -07:00
Derek McGowan 38a6f90f2b
Add rootfs command to dist
Commands allows preparing a rootfs from a manifest hash

Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcgstyle.net> (github: dmcgowan)
2017-03-15 16:32:21 -07:00
Stephen J Day 831f68fd71
cmd/dist, remotes: simplify resolution flow
After receiving feedback during containerd summit walk through of the
pull POC, we found that the resolution flow for names was out of place.
We could see this present in awkward places where we were trying to
re-resolve whether something was a digest or a tag and extra retries to
various endpoints.

By centering this problem around, "what do we write in the metadata
store?", the following interface comes about:

```
Resolve(ctx context.Context, ref string) (name string, desc ocispec.Descriptor, fetcher Fetcher, err error)
```

The above takes an "opaque" reference (we'll get to this later) and
returns the canonical name for the object, a content description of the
object and a `Fetcher` that can be used to retrieve the object and its
child resources. We can write `name` into the metadata store, pointing
at the descriptor. Descisions about discovery, trust, provenance,
distribution are completely abstracted away from the pulling code.

A first response to such a monstrosity is "that is a lot of return
arguments". When we look at the actual, we can see that in practice, the
usage pattern works well, albeit we don't quite demonstrate the utility
of `name`, which will be more apparent later. Designs that allowed
separate resolution of the `Fetcher` and the return of a collected
object were considered. Let's give this a chance before we go
refactoring this further.

With this change, we introduce a reference package with helps for
remotes to decompose "docker-esque" references into consituent
components, without arbitrarily enforcing those opinions on the backend.
Utlimately, the name and the reference used to qualify that name are
completely opaque to containerd. Obviously, implementors will need to
show some candor in following some conventions, but the possibilities
are fairly wide. Structurally, we still maintain the concept of the
locator and object but the interpretation is up to the resolver.

For the most part, the `dist` tool operates exactly the same, except
objects can be fetched with a reference:

```
dist fetch docker.io/library/redis:latest
```

The above should work well with a running containerd instance. I
recommend giving this a try with `fetch-object`, as well. With
`fetch-object`, it is easy for one to better understand the intricacies
of the OCI/Docker image formats.

Ultimately, this serves the main purpose of the elusive "metadata
store".

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-08 16:46:13 -08:00
Stephen J Day 55a1b4eff8 cmd/dist: implement fetch prototype
With the rename of fetch to fetch-object, we now introduce the `fetch`
command. It will fetch all of the resources required for an image into
the content store. We'll still need to follow this up with metadata
registration but this is a good start.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-02 17:36:01 -08:00
Stephen J Day ea9389d4c5
cmd/dist: default mediatypes to oci and docker
To make using the `fetch-object` for demonstrations much easier, the
mediatypes are defaulted when a non-digest object identifier is
provided. We also add support for OCI mediatypes, although they are
mostly unavailable.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-02 16:50:32 -08:00
Stephen J Day 6ab6cdce71
cmd/dist: change fetch to fetch-object command
To allow us to differentiate from fetching an image, fetch a part of an
image and pulling an image, we now call the `fetch` command the
`fetch-object` command. We can now introduce a command that does the
complete image fetch without creating snapshots, allowing `pull` to
perform the entire process.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-03-02 13:50:09 -08:00
Stephen J Day 5da4e1d0d2 services/content: move service client into package
Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-02-28 17:12:24 -08:00
Stephen J Day d61d0b5aef
cmd/dist: add global connect-timeout for GRPC
Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-02-28 16:43:08 -08:00
Stephen J Day 706c629354
api/services/content: define delete method
Allow deletion of content over the GRPC interface. For now, we are going
with a model that conducts reference management outside of the content
store, in the metadata store but this design is valid either way.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-02-27 20:06:29 -08:00
Stephen J Day 2e0c92b168
cmd/dist/fetch: address subtle concurrency bug
When using the fetcher concurrently, the loop modifying the closed
`base` parameter was causing urls from different digests to be returned
randomly. We copy the the value and then modify it to make it work
correctly.

Luckily, we are using content addressable storage or this would have
been undetectable.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-02-24 18:31:26 -08:00
Michael Crosby e04df4e3e5 Merge pull request #571 from stevvooe/use-init-func
cmd/dist: consistently replace version string
2017-02-24 16:33:13 -08:00
Stephen J Day 1cdf9dc834
cmd/dist: consistently replace version string
A previous PR placed the version string replacement in the `init`
function in the other commands. This makes this same change consistently
in the `dist` tool.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-02-24 16:09:19 -08:00
Daniel, Dao Quang Minh 660783cb00 Merge pull request #548 from fate-grand-order/fixed
Use errors.New() directly to output the error message
2017-02-23 11:06:04 +00:00
Phil Estes a463ba33fc Merge pull request #561 from stevvooe/correct-versioning
version: finish version setup
2017-02-22 13:48:05 -08:00
Stephen J Day c062a85782
content: cleanup service and interfaces
After implementing pull, a few changes are required to the content store
interface to make sure that the implementation works smoothly.
Specifically, we work to make sure the predeclaration path for digests
works the same between remote and local writers. Before, we were
hesitent to require the the size and digest up front, but it became
clear that having this provided significant benefit.

There are also several cleanups related to naming. We now call the
expected digest `Expected` consistently across the board and `Total` is
used to mark the expected size.

This whole effort comes together to provide a very smooth status
reporting workflow for image pull and push. This will be more obvious
when the bulk of pull code lands.

There are a few other changes to make `content.WriteBlob` more broadly
useful. In accordance with addition for predeclaring expected size when
getting a `Writer`, `WriteBlob` now supports this fully. It will also
resume downloads if provided an `io.Seeker` or `io.ReaderAt`. Coupled
with the `httpReadSeeker` from `docker/distribution`, we should only be
a lines of code away from resumable downloads.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-02-22 13:30:01 -08:00
Stephen J Day 935144fadd
version: finish version setup
This setup will now correctly set the version number from the git tag.
When using `--version`, we will see the binary name, the package it was
built from and a git hash based on the tag:

```console
$./bin/dist -v
./bin/dist github.com/docker/containerd 0b45d91.m
```

Note that in the above example, if we set a tag of `v1.0.0-dev`, that
will show up in the version number, as follows:

```console
$./bin/dist -v
./bin/dist github.com/docker/containerd v1.0.0-dev
```

Once commits are made past that tag, the version number will be
expressed relative to that tag and include a git hash:

```console
$./bin/dist -v
./bin/dist github.com/docker/containerd v1.0.0-dev-1-g7953e96.m
```

Some these examples include a `.m` postfix. This indicates that the
binary was build from a source tree with local modifications.

We can add a dev tag to start getting 1.0 version numbers for test
builds.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-02-22 13:16:06 -08:00
fate-grand-order 08405824ad Use errors.New() directly to output the error message
Signed-off-by: fate-grand-order <chenjg@harmonycloud.cn>
2017-02-22 10:53:16 +08:00
Stephen J Day e6efb397cf
cmd/dist: port commands over to use GRPC content store
Following from the rest of the work in this branch, we now are porting
the dist command to work directly against the containerd content API.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-02-21 13:10:31 -08:00
Stephen J Day 621164bc84
content: refactor content store for API
After iterating on the GRPC API, the changes required for the actual
implementation are now included in the content store. The begin change
is the move to a single, atomic `Ingester.Writer` method for locking
content ingestion on a key. From this, comes several new interface
definitions.

The main benefit here is the clarification between `Status` and `Info`
that came out of the GPRC API. `Status` tells the status of a write,
whereas `Info` is for querying metadata about various blobs.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-02-21 13:10:22 -08:00
Michael Crosby 1d08c7bc5c Merge pull request #549 from fate-grand-order/typo
correct misspell in cmd/dist/fetch.go and events/transaction.go
2017-02-21 11:14:15 -08:00
fate-grand-order 3626ee7b77 correct misspell in cmd/dist/fetch.go and events/transaction.go
Signed-off-by: fate-grand-order <chenjg@harmonycloud.cn>
2017-02-21 20:24:04 +08:00
Derek McGowan 6443891a7d Update log lines to use containerd log package
Removed unused requires root test function and updated
tar requires function to use lookup method.

Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcgstyle.net> (github: dmcgowan)
2017-02-17 11:50:49 -08:00
Derek McGowan f0a43e72cd Update layer apply to use containerd archive
Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcgstyle.net> (github: dmcgowan)
2017-02-17 11:50:49 -08:00
fate-grand-order af86cd4d2f Use error.New () directly to output the error message
Signed-off-by: fate-grand-order <chenjg@harmonycloud.cn>
2017-02-10 14:31:49 +08:00
Stephen J Day 3e0238612b
dist: provide apply command to build rootfs
This changeset adds the simple apply command. It consumes a tar layer
and applies that layer to the specified directory. For the most part, it
is a direct call into Docker's `pkg/archive.ApplyLayer`.

The following demonstrates unpacking the wordpress rootfs into a local
directory `wordpress`:

```
$ ./dist fetch docker.io/library/wordpress 4.5 mediatype:application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json | \
    jq -r '.layers[] | "sudo ./dist apply ./wordpress < $(./dist path -n "+.digest+")"' | xargs -I{} -n1 sh -c "{}"
```

Note that you should have fetched the layers into the local content
store before running the above. Alternatively, you can just read the
manifest from the content store, rather than fetching it. We use fetch
above to avoid having to lookup the manifest digest for our demo.

This tool has a long way to go. We still need to incorporate
snapshotting, as well as the ability to calculate the `ChainID` under
subsequent unpacking. Once we have some tools to play around with
snapshotting, we'll be able to incorporate our `rootfs.ApplyLayer`
algorithm that will get us a lot closer to a production worthy system.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-01-27 11:00:29 -08:00
Stephen J Day f9cd9be61a
dist: expand functionality of the dist tool
With this change, we add the following commands to the dist tool:

- `ingest`: verify and accept content into storage
- `active`: display active ingest processes
- `list`: list content in storage
- `path`: provide a path to a blob by digest
- `delete`: remove a piece of content from storage

We demonstrate the utility with the following shell pipeline:

```
$ ./dist fetch docker.io/library/redis latest mediatype:application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json | \
    jq -r '.layers[] | "./dist fetch docker.io/library/redis "+.digest + "| ./dist ingest --expected-digest "+.digest+" --expected-size "+(.size | tostring) +" docker.io/library/redis@"+.digest' | xargs -I{} -P10 -n1 sh -c "{}"
```

The above fetches a manifest, pipes it to jq, which assembles a shell
pipeline to ingest each layer into the content store. Because the
transactions are keyed by their digest, concurrent downloads and
downloads of repeated content are ignored. Each process is then executed
parallel using xargs.

Put shortly, this is a parallel layer download.

In a separate shell session, could monitor the active downloads with the
following:

```
$ watch -n0.2 ./dist active
```

For now, the content is downloaded into `.content` in the current
working directory. To watch the contents of this directory, you can use
the following:

```
$ watch -n0.2 tree .content
```

This will help to understand what is going on internally.

To get access to the layers, you can use the path command:

```
$./dist path sha256:010c454d55e53059beaba4044116ea4636f8dd8181e975d893931c7e7204fffa
sha256:010c454d55e53059beaba4044116ea4636f8dd8181e975d893931c7e7204fffa /home/sjd/go/src/github.com/docker/containerd/.content/blobs/sha256/010c454d55e53059beaba4044116ea4636f8dd8181e975d893931c7e7204fffa
```

When you are done, you can clear out the content with the classic xargs
pipeline:

```
$ ./dist list -q | xargs ./dist delete
```

Note that this is mostly a POC. Things like failed downloads and
abandoned download cleanup aren't quite handled. We'll probably make
adjustments around how content store transactions are handled to address
this.

From here, we'll build out full image pull and create tooling to get
runtime bundles from the fetched content.

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-01-27 10:29:10 -08:00
Stephen J Day 19eecaab12
cmd/dist: POC implementation of dist fetch
With this changeset we introduce several new things. The first is the
top-level dist command. This is a toolkit that implements various
distribution primitives, such as fetching, unpacking and ingesting.

The first component to this is a simple `fetch` command. It is a
low-level command that takes a "remote", identified by a `locator`, and
an object identifier. Keyed by the locator, this tool can identify a
remote implementation to fetch the content and write it back to standard
out. By allowing this to be the unit of pluggability in fetching
content, we can have quite a bit of flexibility in how we retrieve
images.

The current `fetch` implementation provides anonymous access to docker
hub images, through the namespace `docker.io`. As an example, one can
fetch the manifest for `redis` with the following command:

```
$ ./dist fetch docker.io/library/redis latest mediatype:application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json
```

Note that we have provided a mediatype "hint", nudging the fetch
implementation to grab the correct endpoint. We can hash the output of
that to fetch the same content by digest:

```
$ ./dist fetch docker.io/library/redis sha256:$(./dist fetch docker.io/library/redis latest mediatype:application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json | shasum -a256)
```

Note that the hint is now elided, since we have affixed the content to a
particular hash.

If you are not yet entertained, let's bring `jq` and `xargs` into the
mix for maximum fun. The following incantation fetches the same manifest
and downloads all layers into the convenience of `/dev/null`:

```
$ ./dist fetch docker.io/library/redis sha256:a027a470aa2b9b41cc2539847a97b8a14794ebd0a4c7c5d64e390df6bde56c73 | jq -r '.layers[] | .digest' | xargs -n1 -P10 ./dist fetch docker.io/library/redis > /dev/null
```

This is just the beginning. We should be able to centralize
configuration around fetch to implement a number of distribution
methodologies that have been challenging or impossible up to this point.
The `locator`, mentioned earlier, is a schemaless URL that provides a
host and path that can be used to resolve the remote. By dispatching on
this common identifier, we should be able to support almost any protocol
and discovery mechanism imaginable.

When this is more solidified, we can roll these up into higher-level
operations that can be orchestrated through the `dist` tool or via GRPC.

What a time to be alive!

Signed-off-by: Stephen J Day <stephen.day@docker.com>
2017-01-23 13:27:07 -08:00