Docker Registry Client

A Python REST client for Docker Registries. Pronounced dee-redge client.

It's useful for automating image tagging and untagging

Usage

Most people will primarily use the Registry class:

from dreg_client import Registry

registry = Registry.build_with_manual_client("https://registry.example.com/v2/")

namespaces = registry.namespaces()  # a sequence of strings
repositories = registry.repositories()  # a mapping of repository names to Repository objects
ns_repositories = registry.repositories("testns")  # a mapping of repository names to Repository objects,
                                                   # but only for those repositories in the "testns" namespace
test_repo = registry.repository("testrepo", "testns")  # a Repository object
test_repo = registry.repository("testns/testrepo")  # an identical repository object

The Repository class has several methods for interacting with individual repositories:

from dreg_client import Repository, Manifest

assert isinstance(test_repo, Repository)
assert test_repo.name == "testns/testrepo"

tags = test_repo.tags()  # a sequence of strings

manifest = test_repo.get_manifest(tags[0])  # a Manifest object
assert isinstance(manifest, Manifest)

test_repo.delete_manifest(manifest.digest)  # manifests can only be deleted by digest, not by tag

# At the moment, retrieving and deleting blobs returns a requests Response object directly
get_blob_response = test_repo.get_blob("sha256:ce17d456b9373523c40fe294e8918a10059f63c54edd2c8ead1f3079f7fbb22a")
delete_blob_response = test_repo.delete_blob("sha256:ce17d456b9373523c40fe294e8918a10059f63c54edd2c8ead1f3079f7fbb22a")

However, you're probably going to want to use the high-level get_image() method, which returns an Image object:

from dreg_client import Image, Platform

test_image = test_repo.get_image(tags[0])
assert isinstance(test_image, Image)

assert test_image.repo == "testns/testrepo"
assert test_image.tag == tags[0]

assert test_image.platforms == {
    Platform.from_name("linux/amd64"),
    Platform.from_name("linux/arm64"),
    Platform.from_name("linux/arm/v7"),
}

platform_image = test_image.get_platform_image(Platform.from_name("linux/amd64"))

History

dreg-client is a fork of a project named docker-registry-client. While it looked good, development has stalled, with approved PRs remaining unmerged. The code design was also hostile to strict type checking. I forked it to make some improvements, add type hints, and to resolve several outstanding problems at the time.

This fork is not a drop-in replacement for docker-registry-client. Major changes from upstream include:

• Complete removal of python2 support
• Complete removal of support for v1 registries
• A re-work of class names
• A re-work of the requests integration and registry auth service
• More higher-level abstractions, to avoid needing to dive into manifest dictionaries

Alternatives

• python-dxf