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by tm11zz • 5 years ago

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tm11zz8• 5 years ago

We created contains.dev to allow quick exploring of Docker images, their contents, layers, etc.

To get any sort of info about an image we found ourselves pulling them locally and spending lots of time with CLI tools and manual layer exploration.

Much like GitHub is a great way to explore different repositories quickly, we're hoping contains.dev is a step in that direction.

oogali• 5 years ago

Is there a private or on-premise version for non-public registries?

tm11zz8• 5 years ago

We're initially focusing on private images available on one of the major registries (AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker Hub, etc.). But on-premise is definitely one of the options we want to offer in the future.

jamescampbell• 5 years ago

How are you loading the data for all of the public repositories? It looks very similar to the front page of https://hub.docker.com/. Assuming you are scraping / using the API to load all of that data?

tm11zz8• 5 years ago

Some information is obtained from the Docker Hub API, but most of the data comes from the registries and images themselves.

cridenour• 5 years ago

Very cool. Would be nice to have a browser extension or something to have a quick link over from hub.docker.com.

tm11zz8• 5 years ago

Thanks! that's a great idea.

thedailypickup• 5 years ago

Looks slick, nice job! What are the advantages of signing up?

tm11zz8• 5 years ago

Thank you! Signing up allows you to view your own private images.

ericb• 5 years ago

How does it work?

tm11zz8• 5 years ago

Generally we process the Docker images and extract useful information and organize the data in a consumable way.

fresh2dev• 5 years ago

This is a huge improvement over DockerHub's UI (both the UI and search), and it definitely feels like the familiar GitHub. Excellent work; bookmarked!

tm11zz8• 5 years ago

Amazing! that's great to hear.

derekjdanserl• 5 years ago

This is awesome.

8eye• 5 years ago

i like this, def keep going in this direction, i am gonna check it out further tomorrow when i am more awake. great look too

alexellisuk• 5 years ago

This reminds me of Microbadger that Liz Rice started with some of her friends. It's very similar.

I like the integration with CVEs.. So what's the longer term vision here for contains.dev?

https://github.com/microscaling/microbadger

tm11zz8• 5 years ago

Great pointer, thanks for that. Now I'm trying to piece together what happened to that project :)

The plan is to integrate with the different registries to support private images and in parallel to expand what contains.dev can do for individual images.

ubergesundheit• 5 years ago

Cool project! I would be cautious with the sentence „See what’s inside your Docker“. Aside from the broader term „container image“, I would think you could get mail from Docker (as I’m the company) for using their name while you’re not Docker.

gvkhna• 5 years ago

This is great! I was working on something similar but admittedly didn’t get around to launching it, it wasn’t as nice as this. How do you plan to monetize?

zufallsheld• 5 years ago

Awesome tool!

It'd be great if we couls use this with github1s.com (https://github1s.com/conwnet/github1s).

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