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Container workflows offer too little control over names and tags

Developers want to organize container images and identify containers with project-specific names, tags, and repositories. In the signals, AWS CDK sends images to a shared ECR repository, while a devcontainer workflow requires a separate build-and-retag workaround; another developer is looking for a simpler Rust image-building workflow. These requests point to fragmented, tool-specific ways to build and identify containers.

For developers building and managing project containers. Mentioned from Sep 2020 to Jan 2025 on GitHub and Hacker News.

4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.

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  1. Every image created for any project using same AWS account/region ends up in very same ECR which makes image management impossible
    wdolek on GitHub (aws/aws-cdk)Jan 2025+45 upvotesAsked for a toolHas a workaround
  2. It would be much easier that I can than upload the image to a Artifactory and not have to re-tag it. Currently it's only possible with this very dirty workaround:
    breemts on GitHub (microsoft/vscode-remote-release)Sep 2020+39 upvotesAsked for a toolHas a workaround
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