diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'vendor/github.com/containerd/platforms/README.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | vendor/github.com/containerd/platforms/README.md | 32 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/containerd/platforms/README.md b/vendor/github.com/containerd/platforms/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2059de7 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/containerd/platforms/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +# platforms + +A Go package for formatting, normalizing and matching container platforms. + +This package is based on the Open Containers Image Spec definition of a [platform](https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/main/specs-go/v1/descriptor.go#L52). + +## Platform Specifier + +While the OCI platform specifications provide a tool for components to +specify structured information, user input typically doesn't need the full +context and much can be inferred. To solve this problem, this package introduces +"specifiers". A specifier has the format +`<os>|<arch>|<os>/<arch>[/<variant>]`. The user can provide either the +operating system or the architecture or both. + +An example of a common specifier is `linux/amd64`. If the host has a default +runtime that matches this, the user can simply provide the component that +matters. For example, if an image provides `amd64` and `arm64` support, the +operating system, `linux` can be inferred, so they only have to provide +`arm64` or `amd64`. Similar behavior is implemented for operating systems, +where the architecture may be known but a runtime may support images from +different operating systems. + +## Project details + +**platforms** is a containerd sub-project, licensed under the [Apache 2.0 license](./LICENSE). +As a containerd sub-project, you will find the: + * [Project governance](https://github.com/containerd/project/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md), + * [Maintainers](https://github.com/containerd/project/blob/main/MAINTAINERS), + * and [Contributing guidelines](https://github.com/containerd/project/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) + +information in our [`containerd/project`](https://github.com/containerd/project) repository.
\ No newline at end of file |
