DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - Registry is getting an upgrade: Inside OCI artifacts

Registry is getting an upgrade: Inside OCI artifacts

12/08/23 • 21 min

DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

The OCI specifications for registry and image are getting a minor version number update to 1.1 soon, and this could be a big deal for anyone storing artifacts other than images somewhere in their infrastructure. This episode digs into the problem with artifacts today, and how the OCI and CNCF are planning to fix it with the "one registry to serve them all (artifacts)" in 2023/2024.

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★Topics★
OCI image and runtime specifications
Helms's new OCI artifact support
Brandon Mitchell's recent OCI Distribution 1.1 RC talk on how registries relate data objects today
Here are the Helm docs on how to use your existing registries to store charts
ORAS project
Great talk on ORAS
OCI has a great, short post summarizing technical changes in OCI Image 1.1 and Distribution 1.1 specifications.
My original newsletter with more links and screenshots, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Creators & Guests

Cristi Cotovan - Editor
Beth Fisher - Producer
Bret Fisher - Host
(00:00) -
(00:43) - Introduction to Docker and OCI Registries
(03:08) - The Challenges of Artifact Storage in Enterprises
(03:52) - The Role of Artifactory and Other Commercial Solutions
(04:15) - The Problem with Artifact-Specific Storage Systems
(04:31) - The Need for a Single Artifact Storage Standard
(05:56) - The Future of OCI or Docker Registry
(06:07) - The OCI Registry and its Main Data Objects
(06:36) - The Use of Registries to Store Non-Container Image Data
(07:42) - The Evolution of Container Registries
(13:20) - The Vision of the OCI and CNCF Teams
(14:11) - How to Use OCI Artifacts Today
(15:39) - The Two Types of Artifacts and How to Use Them
(17:13) - The Use of OCI Artifacts in Various Tools
(19:42) - Conclusion: The Future of Artifact Storage

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Creators & Guests

Cristi Cotovan - Editor
Beth Fisher - Producer
Bret Fisher - Host
(00:00) -
(00:43) - Introduction to Docker and OCI Registries
(03:08) - The Challenges of Artifact Storage in Enterprises
(03:52) - The Role of Artifactory and Other Commercial Solutions
(04:15) - The Problem with Artifact-Specific Storage Systems
(04:31) - The Need for a Single Artifact Storage Standard
(05:56) - The Future of OCI or Docker Registry
(06:07) - The OCI Registry and its Main Data Objects
(06:36) - The Use of Registries to Store Non-Container Image Data
(07:42) - The Evolution of Container Registries
(13:20) - The Vision of the OCI and CNCF Teams
(14:11) - How to Use OCI Artifacts Today
(15:39) - The Two Types of Artifacts and How to Use Them
(17:13) - The Use of OCI Artifacts in Various Tools
(19:42) - Conclusion: The Future of Artifact Storage

Previous Episode

KubeCon Live with Friends 2023

Bret is joined by Nirmal and a host of friends from the floor of KubeCon, to talk about the latest news and goings-on.

We wanted to get some of our friends and people we haven't seen in a while that are making great stuff out there on the show for just a few minutes and it's sort of a rapid panel of rotating guests. If you actually watched the video version of this, there's literally people walking in and out of the camera throughout the show.

The live recording of the complete show from November 9, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #240)

Creators & Guests

Cristi Cotovan - Editor
Beth Fisher - Producer
Bret Fisher - Host
Nirmal Mehta - Host
(00:00) - Intro
(02:04) - Welcome from KubeCon North America
(02:24) - Phil Estes on ContainerD
(03:22) - Exploring the Sandbox Service
(05:08) - What is Finch?
(09:00) - James Buren on CNCF Projects
(21:48) - Mike Coleman on Falco
(24:43) - Chad Cole on Kubernetes Certification
(30:57) - Nigel Poulton's Insights on KubeCon
(42:17) - Mauricio Salatino
(43:45) - Derek Morgan

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Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.
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Next Episode

Dagger: CI of the Future?

Application delivery doesn’t have to suck. Bret and Nirmal are joined by Solomon Hykes, the founder or Docker, to talk about Dagger and their application delivery-as-code that runs anywhere.

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Solomon started Dagger after he left Docker in 2018 with a few other Docker VPs, including Sam Alba and Andrea Lusardi.

Dagger is an innovative startup aimed at simplifying and revolutionizing DevOps automation and software delivery. Created to address Docker's unattended gaps, Dagger streamlines software building, testing, and deployment, exhibiting immense growth potential and wide applications in fostering software ecosystems.

For a few years now, they've been publicly iterating on the idea of a programmable and portable automation system for software building, testing, and deploying.

In this episode, they cover many topics around Docker and Dagger. I've been convinced that I need to start trying out Dagger in my projects.

The live recording of the complete show from November 16, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #241)

★Topics★
Dagger website

Creators & Guests