[nzoschke]

I work with containers all day every day and the image format is really important

I have code on my laptop and I need to package it for many environments:

A development VM A CI service Pushed and stored at rest in a registry Run on multiple runtime services like AWS ECS and Lambda

It would be really nice if one image worked everywhere. Having to rebuild is at the very least inefficient, but sometimes disastrous if a different dependency or language version sneaks in.

The Docker image format and registry API is becoming ubiquitous. We have also been using tarballs for builds for decades.

Does it need to be standardized? Probably not.

But it would be nice if we can do a better job of cooperating this generation than we did with VM images.