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Docker Artifact

Use docker image labels to identify which image layer contains a particular file, enabling retrieving just that file (well, the layer the file is in) from the image without needing to download the whole image.

Setup

Prerequisites

Requires the jq and curl programs to be installed on your PATH.

Installation

Download docker-artifact.sh file from this repository and install it at ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-artifact (note the lack of .sh suffix) with execute permissions. Validate correct installation by observing the artifact command listed in docker help.

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Run the following command in your shell:

mkdir -p ~/.docker/cli-plugins && \
  curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infogulch/docker-artifact/master/docker-artifact.sh > ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-artifact && \
  chmod +x ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-artifact && \
  docker help | grep artifact > /dev/null && echo "Docker artifact install succeeded!" || echo "Docker artifact install failed :("

Usage

docker artifact label [image] [file-path-1] [file-path-2] ...

Adds labels to an existing image enabling the download command below to pull just the layers that contain the file paths specified above.

Note: download must download the whole layer; to optimize for artifact download size, add the target files to the image in a separate layer.

docker artifact download [image] [file-path-1] [file-path-2]

Downloads the image layers associated with the file paths specified and extracts them into the current directory.

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