podman-container-tools/skopeo
Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content
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Where it stands
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2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 51 days ago, with 154 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a command line tool to inspect, copy, delete, and sync container images across various registries and storage backends without requiring root or a daemon.
- Enables rootless and daemonless operations on container images, supporting multiple image formats and registries with flexible authentication methods.
- Use for inspecting remote container images and repositories to gather metadata without downloading the images locally.
- Use for copying container images between different registries, local storage, or OCI layouts securely and efficiently.
- Use for synchronizing container image repositories for air-gapped or offline deployment environments.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
skopeois a command line utility that performs various operations on container images and image repositories.
skopeodoes not require the user to be running as root to do most of its operations.
skopeodoes not require a daemon to be running to perform its operations.
skopeocan work with OCI images as well as the original Docker v2 images.For a detailed description how to install or build skopeo, see install.md.
Skopeo is also available as a Container Image on quay.io. For more information, see the Skopeo Image page.
skopeois able to inspect a repository on a container registry and fetch images layers. The inspect command fetches the repository's manifest and it is able to show you adocker inspect-like json output about a whole repository or a tag. This tool, in contrast todocker inspect, helps you gather useful information about a repository or a tag before pulling it (using disk space). The inspect command can show you which tags are available for the given repository, the labels the image has, the creation date and operating system of the image and more.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
966+22
Open issues
84+0
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 192.3K | +5.2K | 75 | — |
| zed-industries/zed | 94.7K | +2.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| google/skills | 23.8K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 99.4K | +1.8K | 75 | 19 days ago |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 20.8K | +1.7K | 75 | 7 days ago |
| podman-container-tools/skopeo | 11.4K | — | 62 | 51 days ago |
| Category median | 94.7K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
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