donodo - Bridging Docker images with Zenodo

Installation

pip install -U donodo

Quick usage guide

Retrieve a Docker image from a Zenodo record

donodo pull DOI

where DOI is the Zenodo DOI or link to the record.

Persistently store a Docker image on Zenodo

 export ZENODO_TOKEN=your_Zenodo_API_token
donodo push your/image:tag

See donodo push -h for options.

Zenodo sandbox

Use donodo --sandbox to act on the sandbox https://sandbox.zenodo.org.

Documentation

donodo pull: import a Docker image from a Zenodo record

The donodo pull command takes as additional argument either a DOI, a DOI link, or a Zenodo record link.

The command looks by priority for (1) a file whose name starts with image.tar (2) a file whose name contains .tar. The filename can ends with either .tar or .tar.gz.

Whenever a single file is found, it will be downloaded and sent to the docker load command; otherwise an error is thrown.

Note that the name and tag of the Docker image are specified within the image file. It will be displayed at the end of the process.

donodo push: export a Docker image as a permament Zenodo record

The donodo push commands takes as additional argument the name of the Docker image, including tag (which cannot be latest). The Docker image has to exist locally.

The command will create a new record with the title being by default Docker image {image_name}. If such a record already exists, it will create a new version of it with the tag of the Docker image. Thus if you push several tags of the same image name, only a single record will be created, with different versions.

The Docker image is exported using the docker save command and compressed in a local temporary file. The file is then uploaded to the Zenodo record as image.tar.gz.

Once the draft record has been created, the command will display the link to the draft and ask whether to publish it. You can modify the record from the webpage if necessary before answering the question. The option --auto-publish skips this question and promptly publishes the image.

Once published, the command will display its DOI link.

⚠️ Once published, the image file cannot be deleted or modified. Note that, however, it remains possible to update the metadata and description of the record.

The push command requires a Zenodo API token, given in the ZENODO_TOKEN environment variable. You can create an API token at https://zenodo.org/account/settings/applications/ with the deposit:write and deposit:actions scopes.

Customize the template of the deposition

The templates used to fill the fields of the Zenodo deposition are specified by the deposition_templates variable in donodo/templates.py. The templates will be interpreted as Python f-string, and have access to the variable image which is a DockerImage object having the following fields:

• image.name being the name of the Docker image
• image.tag being the tag of the Docker image
• image.labels being a dictionnary of the labels specified in the Docker image
• image.inspect being the dictionnary as returned by the docker inspect command.

The templates can be overriden using a JSON file given with the option --templates.

Example: docker push --templates mytemplates.json my/image:v1 with mytemplates.json being

{
 "creators": [{"name":"Smith, Jane", "affiliation": "My University", "orcid": "0000-0002-1694-233X"}],
 "keywords": ["docker image", "my topic"]
}

You can specify any fields of a Zenodo deposition, following the specification at https://developers.zenodo.org/#representation.