Can oci-archive use a network location?

[kolotaev]

Hello 👋

Is it possible to make image work with network locations?

Example is:

    task "my-http" {
      driver = "podman"
      config {
        image = "oci-archive:http://10.211.55.9:9999/uploads/myhttp.tar"
      }
    }

Where myhttp.tar is an archive that I serve via HTTP.

I created it via podman save --format oci-archive -o /tmp/uploads/myhttp.tar myhttp:latest.

Note, that podman itself supports getting archive be it filesystem or a network location. Consider this:

podman load -i http://10.211.55.9:9999/uploads/myhttp.tar
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 99cf8ab899fa skipped: already exists  
Copying blob 41cbe294e54d skipped: already exists  
Copying blob 870027e70bc9 skipped: already exists  
Copying blob fc8a6b71fc5e skipped: already exists  
Copying config 58e9d534e8 done  
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
Loaded image: myhttp:latest

[mcpherrinm]

As a workaround, I think you can use an artifact block to fetch it, but then note #389 on the image path to pass to podman