I’ve been playing again with Docker images and their internal layers a little more over the last week — you can see some of my previous adventures at Manipulating Docker images without Docker installed. The general thrust of these adventures is understanding the format and how to manipulate it by building a tool called Occy Strap…
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Manipulating Docker images without Docker installed
Recently I’ve been playing a bit more with Docker images and Docker image repositories. I had in the past written a quick hack to let me extract files from a Docker image, but I wanted to do something a little more mature than that. For example, sometimes you want to download an image from a…
Quick hack: extracting the contents of a Docker image to disk
Hello! Please note I’ve written a little python tool called Occy Strap which makes this a bit easier, and can do some fancy things around importing and exporting multiple images. You might want to read about it? For various reasons, I wanted to inspect the contents of a Docker image without starting a container. Docker…