Container
Buildkite Packages provides registry support for container-based (Docker) images.
Once your container registry has been created, you can publish/upload images (generated from your application's build) to this registry via relevant docker
commands presented on your container registry's details page.
To view and copy these docker
commands:
- Select Packages in the global navigation to access the Registries page.
- Select your container registry on this page.
- Select Publish a Container Image and in the resulting dialog, for each required
docker
command set in the relevant code snippets, copy the relevant code snippet (using the icon at the top-right of its code box), paste it into your terminal, and run it.
These Docker commands are used to:
- Log in to your Buildkite container registry with the API access token.
- Tag your container image to be published.
- Publish the image to your container registry.
Publish an image
The following steps describe the process above:
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Copy the following
docker login
command, paste it into your terminal, and modify as required before running to log in to your container registry:docker login packages.buildkite.com/{org.slug}/{registry.slug} -u buildkite -p registry-write-token
where:
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registry-write-token
is your API access token used to publish/upload packages to your container registry. Ensure this access token has the Read Packages and Write Packages REST API scopes, which allows this token to publish packages to any registry your user account has access to within your Buildkite organization.
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{org.slug}
can be obtained from the end of your Buildkite URL, after accessing Packages or Pipelines in the global navigation of your organization in Buildkite.
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{registry.slug}
is the slug of your container registry, which is the kebab-case version of your container registry name, and can be obtained after accessing Packages in the global navigation > your container registry from the Registries page.
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Copy the following
docker tag
command, paste it into your terminal, and modify as required before running to tag your container image:docker tag current-image-name:tag packages.buildkite.com/{org.slug}/{registry.slug}/package-name:tag
where:
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current-image-name:tag
is the existingimage-name:tag
combination of your container image name and its current tag to published to your container registry. The:tag
component can be optional. This component of this command also supports the other tag syntax references mentioned in thedocker tag
documentation. -
image-name:tag
is the image name and tag to provide to this image when it is published to your container registry, where the:tag
part of this command is optional.
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Copy the following
docker push
command, paste it into your terminal, and modify as required before running to push your container image:docker push packages.buildkite.com/{org.slug}/{registry.slug}/package-name:tag
where
package-name:tag
is the image name and tag combination you configured in the previous step.
Access an image's details
A container image's details can be accessed from this registry using the Packages section of your container registry page.
To access your container image's details page:
- Select Packages in the global navigation to access the Registries page.
- Select your container registry on this page.
- On your container registry page, select the image to display its details page.
The image's details page provides the following information in the following sections:
- Installation (tab): the installation instructions.
- Contents (tab, where available): a list of directories and files contained within the image.
- Details (tab): a list of checksum values for this image—MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and SHA512.
- About this version: a brief (metadata) description about the image.
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Details: details about:
- the name of the image (typically the file name excluding any version details and extension).
- the image version.
- the registry the image is located in.
- the image's visibility (based on its registry's visibility)—whether the image is Private and requires authentication to access, or is publicly accessible.
- the distribution name / version.
- additional optional metadata contained within the image, such as a homepage, licenses, etc.
Pushed: the date when the last image was uploaded to the registry.
Total files: the total number of files (and directories) within the image.
Dependencies: the number of dependency images required by this image.
Package size: the storage size (in bytes) of this image.
Downloads: the number of times this image has been downloaded.
Downloading an image
A container image can be downloaded from the image's details page. To do this:
- Access the package's details.
- Select Download.
Installing an image
A container image can be obtained using code snippet details provided on the image's details page. To do this:
- Access the image's details.
- Ensure the Installation > Instructions section is displayed.
- For each required command in the relevant code snippets, copy the relevant code snippet, paste it into your terminal, and run it.
The following set of code snippets are descriptions of what each code snippet does and where applicable, its format:
Registry configuration
If your registry is private (that is, the default registry configuration), log in to the container registry containing the image to obtain with the following docker login
command:
docker login packages.buildkite.com/{org.slug}/{registry.slug} -u buildkite -p registry-read-token
where:
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{org.slug}
can be obtained from the end of your Buildkite URL, after accessing Packages or Pipelines in the global navigation of your organization in Buildkite.
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{registry.slug}
is the slug of your container registry, which is the kebab-case version of your container registry name, and can be obtained after accessing Packages in the global navigation > your container registry from the Registries page.
-
registry-read-token
is your API access token or registry token used to download packages from your container registry. Ensure this access token has the Read Packages REST API scope, which allows this token to download packages from any registry your user account has access to within your Buildkite organization.
This step is not required for public container registries.
Package installation
Use the following docker pull
command to obtain the image:
docker pull packages.buildkite.com/{org.slug}/{registry.slug}/image-name:tag
where:
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{org.slug}
can be obtained from the end of your Buildkite URL, after accessing Packages or Pipelines in the global navigation of your organization in Buildkite.
-
{registry.slug}
is the slug of your container registry, which is the kebab-case version of your container registry name, and can be obtained after accessing Packages in the global navigation > your container registry from the Registries page.
image-name
is the name of your image.tag
is the tag associated with this image.