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skopeo — Container image management toolbox. Provides various utility commands to manage remote container ima

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Problem

How to use the skopeo command: Container image management toolbox. Provides various utility commands to manage remote container images. More information: <https://github.com/containers/skopeo/blob/main/docs/skopeo.1.md>.

Solution

skopeo — Container image management toolbox. Provides various utility commands to manage remote container images. More information: <https://github.com/containers/skopeo/blob/main/docs/skopeo.1.md>.

Inspect a remote image from a registry:

skopeo inspect docker://{{registry_hostname}}/{{image:tag}}

List available tags for a remote image:

skopeo list-tags docker://{{registry_hostname}}/{{image}}

Download an image from a registry:

skopeo copy docker://{{registry_hostname}}/{{image:tag}} dir:{{path/to/directory}}

Copy an image from one registry to another:

skopeo copy docker://{{source_registry}}/{{image:tag}} docker://{{destination_registry}}/{{image:tag}}

Delete an image from a registry:

skopeo delete docker://{{registry_hostname}}/{{image:tag}}

Log in to a registry:

skopeo login --username {{username}} {{registry_hostname}}

Code Snippets

Inspect a remote image from a registry

skopeo inspect docker://{{registry_hostname}}/{{image:tag}}

List available tags for a remote image

skopeo list-tags docker://{{registry_hostname}}/{{image}}

Download an image from a registry

skopeo copy docker://{{registry_hostname}}/{{image:tag}} dir:{{path/to/directory}}

Copy an image from one registry to another

skopeo copy docker://{{source_registry}}/{{image:tag}} docker://{{destination_registry}}/{{image:tag}}

Delete an image from a registry

skopeo delete docker://{{registry_hostname}}/{{image:tag}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/skopeo

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