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OCI Image Manifest Specification

There are three main goals of the Image Manifest Specification. The first goal is content-addressable images, by supporting an image model where the image's configuration can be hashed to generate a unique ID for the image and its components. The second goal is to allow multi-architecture images, through a "fat manifest" which references image manifests for platform-specific versions of an image. In OCI, this is codified in an image index. The third goal is to be translatable to the OCI Runtime Specification.

This section defines the application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json media type. For the media type(s) that this is compatible with see the matrix.

Image Manifest

Unlike the image index, which contains information about a set of images that can span a variety of architectures and operating systems, an image manifest provides a configuration and set of layers for a single container image for a specific architecture and operating system.

Image Manifest Property Descriptions

  • schemaVersion int

    This REQUIRED property specifies the image manifest schema version. For this version of the specification, this MUST be 2 to ensure backward compatibility with older versions of Docker. The value of this field will not change. This field MAY be removed in a future version of the specification.

  • mediaType string

    This property SHOULD be used and remain compatible with earlier versions of this specification and with other similar external formats. When used, this field MUST contain the media type application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json. This field usage differs from the descriptor use of mediaType.

  • config descriptor

    This REQUIRED property references a configuration object for a container, by digest. Beyond the descriptor requirements, the value has the following additional restrictions:

  • layers array of objects

    Each item in the array MUST be a descriptor. The array MUST have the base layer at index 0. Subsequent layers MUST then follow in stack order (i.e. from layers[0] to layers[len(layers)-1]). The final filesystem layout MUST match the result of applying the layers to an empty directory. The ownership, mode, and other attributes of the initial empty directory are unspecified.

    Beyond the descriptor requirements, the value has the following additional restrictions:

  • annotations string-string map

    This OPTIONAL property contains arbitrary metadata for the image manifest. This OPTIONAL property MUST use the annotation rules.

    See Pre-Defined Annotation Keys.

Example Image Manifest

Example showing an image manifest:

{
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "config": {
    "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.config.v1+json",
    "size": 7023,
    "digest": "sha256:b5b2b2c507a0944348e0303114d8d93aaaa081732b86451d9bce1f432a537bc7"
  },
  "layers": [
    {
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.layer.v1.tar+gzip",
      "size": 32654,
      "digest": "sha256:9834876dcfb05cb167a5c24953eba58c4ac89b1adf57f28f2f9d09af107ee8f0"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.layer.v1.tar+gzip",
      "size": 16724,
      "digest": "sha256:3c3a4604a545cdc127456d94e421cd355bca5b528f4a9c1905b15da2eb4a4c6b"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.layer.v1.tar+gzip",
      "size": 73109,
      "digest": "sha256:ec4b8955958665577945c89419d1af06b5f7636b4ac3da7f12184802ad867736"
    }
  ],
  "annotations": {
    "com.example.key1": "value1",
    "com.example.key2": "value2"
  }
}