Many iterations have gone into documenting a v1 specification of Docker's Image
format.
v1 Image spec: clarify parent field
- metalivedev pointed out that the description was ambiguous, so I've removed
mention that it was randomly generated. It IS the ID of the parent image.
Updated v1 image specificatino documentation
- More complete details and deprication notifications for each field
in the JSON metadata of an image.
- Details on the format for packaging combined Image JSON + Filesystem
Changeset archives for all layers of an image.
Clarify description of an image "Layer" in v1 spec
Updated intro of image v1 spec
Updated image v1 spec after more review
- Removed description of "Image" from the terminology section. The entire
document is meant to serve this purpose.
- Updated the definition of "Image Filesystem Changeset".
- Clarified the level of randomness needed for generating image IDs.
- Updated the description of "Image Checksum".
- Added term descriptions for "Repository" and "Tag"
- Removed extraneous/implementation-specific fields from the Image JSON
example file and field descriptions:
- removed "container_config" and "docker_version" fields.
- Added missing "author" field example and description.
- Removed extraneous/implementation-specific fields from the "config" struct
example and description:
- removed "Hostname", "Domainname", "Cpuset", "AttachStdin", "AttachStdout",
"AttachStderr", "PortSpecs", "Tty", "OpenStdin", "StdinOnce", "Image",
"NetworkDisabled", and "OnBuild".
- Updated example Image JSON config with better example values for "Env",
"Cmd", "Volumes", "WorkingDir", "Entrypoint", "CpuShares", "Memory",
"MemorySwap", and "User".
- Added notices that any fields not specified are to be considered as
implementation specific and should be ignored my implementations which
are unable to interpret them.
- Updated example of creating layer filesystem changesets to use less formal
language.
- Listed more details in the section regarding extraction of a bundle of image
layers into the root filesystem of a container.
- Updated the closing mention of Docker as an evolving implementation.
More updates to the v1 image spec
- Added line wrapping after 80 columns per line to adhere to documentation
style guides, as pointed out by @jamtur01
- Removed references to any specific docker commands, updated a few descriptions
or drop repeated statements, as pointed out by @cpuguy83
Cleanup image v1 spec draft after fredlf comments
Address comments by mmdriley on v1 image spec
Improve description of image v1 spec 'config.User`
- Improves description of image v1 specification for the 'User' runtime
parameter after recomendations by tianon.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Josh Hawn <josh.hawn@docker.com> (github: jlhawn)
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