Showing posts with label manifest list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manifest list. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Docker Official Images Go Multi-Arch

Starting today, all Docker official images (on Docker Hub and soon easily identifiable on Docker Store) are multi-arch images. Official images are credibly curated images that are maintained by Docker, the Docker community or the projects behind individual images.

That does not mean that all these images are available for s390x yet, but the infrastructure is in place to several architectures into official images, i.e. all official images are manifest lists. An earlier post explained multi-arch images and how to use it.

At this time, quite some official images are not just multi-arch enabled, but also carry s390x binaries.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Multi-Arch Registry and Images

It has been a while since multi-architecture support has been developed and brought upstream. Multi-architecture support allows to put several images behind a common identifier in a registry. With that, a consumer of the image won't have to think about pulling the right binary flavor of the image, it's done right automatically for him.

A couple of things play together for this magic: