[Pulp-dev] crane usage for disconnected container import

[Tom McKay]

The problem: Container images need to be delivered to another pulp in a
disconnected manner. Specifically I need to "save" something to disk from
pulp-1, walk that disk to another server, then import that saved content
into pulp-2.

Quoting @mhrivnak from another email:

The supported way to move docker content around is via the registry API, so
we will need to do a "sync" on the disconnected capsule of a local crane
instance that is serving walked-in content. It probably shouldn't be the
same crane instance that's already running on the capsule, to avoid repo
name collisions.

You also need to have the docker content (blobs, manifests, etc) served
locally.

httpd on the capsule could certainly be configured to run a second instance
of crane on a different port, and to serve the walked-in content from some
designated location.

1. Satellite publishes a docker repo. Its "redirect-url" needs to match
whatever the URL will look like from the capsule when the content is being
served there. Here are details on where the data gets written to disk by
pulp: http://docs.pulpproject.org/plugins/pulp_docker/tech-
reference/distributor.html#web-distributor

2. the json blob, plus the rest of the repo data, gets walked to the
disconnected capsule.

3. The walked-in content is put in the right place so that a local crane
and web server makes it available.

4. Pulp on the capsule syncs the walked-in repos.

This has me wondering a few things:

Could a single crane support serving up multiple registries on different
ports that are serving up different pulp repos? docker pull
mycrane:5001/image:tag

Could a single crane support serving up multiple registries on different
paths? docker pull mycrane:5000/some/path/image:tag

The context for my questions is foreman[1] where the disconnected use case
is useful. Being able to also serve multiple registries for different
organizations (scoping) would also be useful.

Creative ideas welcome!

[1] https://theforeman.org/plugins/katello/
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