Docker Registry Client

A Python REST client for the Docker Registry

It's useful for automating image tagging and untagging

Usage

The API provides several classes: DockerRegistryClient, Repository, and Image.

DockerRegistryClient has the following methods:

• namespaces() -> a list of all namespaces in the registry
• repository(repository_name, namespace) -> the corresponding repository object
• repositories() -> all repositories in the registry

Repository has the following methods:

• tags() -> a list of all tags in the repository
• data(tag) -> json data associated with tag
• image(tag) -> the image associated with tag
• untag(tag) -> remove tag from the repository
• tag(tag, image_id) -> apply tag to image_id

Image has the following methods:

• get_layer() -> binary layer data for image
• get_json() -> json metadata for image
• get_data(field) -> single field from json data
• ancestry() -> ids for image ancestors

Alternatives

• python-dxf (only supports V2)