Feature Request: Support exporting images to a containerd socket

[spkane]

Description

It is more and more common not to have a local Docker daemon available and during certain testing cycles pushing to a registry is not always easy or desirable.

It would be great if you could easily create a buildpack and then export the results directly into a containerd namespace.

Proposed solution

Extend pack and the underlying creator command so that it is possible to pass in something like -containerd k8s.io, which will then tell the export step to push the results into that containerd namespace instead of into a Docker registry or daemon.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Many hacks that require running Docker, exporting to docker, pull out the image, and then re-pushing it into containerd.

[spkane]

Cross-posted here: buildpacks/pack#1393

Feel free to close one or the other, but I wasn't sure which location was best, and whether both tools would need related changes.

[jjbustamante]

Hi @spkane, Thanks for creating the issue! I've been working on a couple of RFCs related to adding additional support for removing the Daemon or exporting to OCI format.

• RFC: Export to OCI format rfcs#203
• RFC: Deprecate the use of the Daemon rfcs#201

I will try to take this issue into the evaluation and see if we can move forward with the idea!

[spkane]

Thank you very much @jjbustamante ! That would be very much appreciated.