Prepare the conda ecosystem for OCI-based storage compatibility.
📝 Background
OCI (Open Container Initiative) registries are a well-defined standard for versioned blob storage already implemented by many public cloud providers (i.e. GitHub).
We plan to leverage the OCI registry on GitHub Packages to develop a community-maintained mirror for bioconda and conda-forge.
Besides, adopting an OCI-based strategy will provide additional flexibility for metadata expansion.
With this in mind, we aim to produce and capture more comprehensive package metadata, which we will later use for: maintenance dashboards, package search functions, and security checks.
📌 Summary
Prepare the conda ecosystem for OCI-based storage compatibility.
📝 Background
OCI (Open Container Initiative) registries are a well-defined standard for versioned blob storage already implemented by many public cloud providers (i.e. GitHub). We plan to leverage the OCI registry on GitHub Packages to develop a community-maintained mirror for bioconda and conda-forge.
Besides, adopting an OCI-based strategy will provide additional flexibility for metadata expansion. With this in mind, we aim to produce and capture more comprehensive package metadata, which we will later use for: maintenance dashboards, package search functions, and security checks.
🚀 Tasks / Deliverables
ℹ️ References
oras-py: a Python library to interact with an OCI registrychannel-mirrorsorganization: OCI-based mirror of conda-forge and bioconda