## Why Local `docker` repos had no write path — the `/v2` Docker Registry API only proxied to upstreams. This makes a local docker repo a genuine container registry so `docker push`/`docker pull` (and podman/skopeo/buildah) work against it directly, matching the project principle that a local repo is *the real thing* rather than a mirror. ## Changes - Implement the Docker Registry HTTP API V2 read/write half for local docker repos: blob uploads (monolithic and chunked POST/PATCH/PUT), manifest push, `tags/list`, and blob/manifest GET/HEAD. - Store blobs and manifests through the existing content-addressable store; keep a `local_files` reference per (repo, image) so the GC does not reap them. Tags are mutable (`UpsertLocalFile`); digests and blobs are immutable. - Dispatch `/v2` reads to the local handler for local docker repos and fall through to the upstream proxy otherwise; writes are local-docker only. - Add `UpsertLocalFile` for mutable tag references. - Cover the push/pull round-trip with a dockerised e2e test and unit-test the registry path parser. Document the registry in the README. ## Verification - `scripts/docker-e2e.sh` passes, including the new `TestLocalDockerPushPull`. - Verified a real end-to-end round-trip with skopeo against a live instance: pushed `hello-world`, pulled it back, loaded it into the docker daemon, and ran it successfully. Reviewed-on: #103 Co-authored-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net> Co-committed-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
Dockerised end-to-end suite
Black-box tests that run against a fully containerised artifactapi stack
(built image + Postgres + Redis + MinIO) plus a static mock upstream. Unlike the
in-process e2e/ suite (testcontainers, server run in-process), these only speak
HTTP to the running product, so they exercise the shipped container image.
Run
make docker-e2e # build image, compose up, run suite, compose down
scripts/docker-e2e.sh builds and starts docker-compose.yml +
docker-compose.e2e.yml, waits for /health, then runs
go test -tags=dockere2e ./e2e-docker/... and tears everything down.
The stack publishes artifactapi on host port 8001 (to avoid colliding with a
local instance on 8000). Override with ARTIFACTAPI_URL to point the tests at an
already-running stack.
Coverage
- Repository lifecycle — add / change / delete for remote, local and virtual repos.
- Caching — one immutable artifact per remote package type (generic, docker,
helm, pypi, npm, rpm, alpine, puppet, terraform, goproxy) proxied through the
mock upstream: first fetch
X-Artifact-Source: remote, secondcache, bytes verified against the origin fixture. - Local uploads — generic (upload/download), pypi (wheel + generated
simple/index), rpm (real package + automatic repodata generation). - Virtual repositories — pypi simple-index merge and helm
index.yamlmerge across two members.
Fixtures
fixtures/ is served by the mock upstream at its web root. Paths mirror each
provider's upstream URL layout (e.g. v2/... for docker, v1/providers/... for
terraform). The RPM under fixtures/rpmrepo/Packages/ is a real package so the
rpm provider can parse its metadata for repodata generation.