docked image naming and tagging

[naseemkullah]

https://hub.docker.com/u/otel

IMHO The prepending opentelemetry- seems redundant since the repo is named otel.

Furthermore could there simply be a collector image with various tags: e.g. dev, contrib, contrib-dev, stable or are they really different and require different images altogether?

[tigrannajaryan]

https://hub.docker.com/u/otel

IMHO The prepending opentelemetry- seems redundant since the repo is named otel.

This repo is named opentelemetry-collector. It is not quite clear what your proposal is.

Furthermore could there simply be a collector image with various tags: e.g. dev, contrib, contrib-dev, stable or are they really different and require different images altogether?

Yes, they are different. dev is from master build. stable is the releases. contrib is from https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/ repo.

[naseemkullah]

https://hub.docker.com/u/otel
IMHO The prepending opentelemetry- seems redundant since the repo is named otel.

This repo is named opentelemetry-collector. It is not quite clear what your proposal is.

That the image be otel/collector:stable instead of otel/opentelemetry-collector:stable ,
but by that logic this repo should be opentelemetry/collector rather than opentelemetry/opentelemetry-collector so 🤷‍♂️

Furthermore could there simply be a collector image with various tags: e.g. dev, contrib, contrib-dev, stable or are they really different and require different images altogether?

Yes, they are different. dev is from master build. stable is the releases. contrib is from https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/ repo.

could then dev and stable just be image tags of the same image? i.e. otel/(opentelemetry-)collector:dev and otel/(opentelemetry-)collector:stable ?

[atrauzzi]

I don't know about you guys, but otel as the organization name is flat out confusing and not even slightly discoverable.

The docker image based on this repo should be one of:

• opentelemetry/collector
• opentelemetry/opentelemetry-collector

This scheme works for countless other organizations. otel is just way too inside-baseball to assume people are going to know to search and recognize it as an official source. It's like putting your nickname on a government form: At a glance, it earns no legitimacy and serves no purpose but to obscure what's typically interpreted as the organization portion of the image name.

[tigrannajaryan]

https://hub.docker.com/u/otel
IMHO The prepending opentelemetry- seems redundant since the repo is named otel.

This repo is named opentelemetry-collector. It is not quite clear what your proposal is.

That the image be otel/collector:stable instead of otel/opentelemetry-collector:stable ,
but by that logic this repo should be opentelemetry/collector rather than opentelemetry/opentelemetry-collector so 🤷‍♂️

Furthermore could there simply be a collector image with various tags: e.g. dev, contrib, contrib-dev, stable or are they really different and require different images altogether?

Yes, they are different. dev is from master build. stable is the releases. contrib is from https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/ repo.

could then dev and stable just be image tags of the same image? i.e. otel/(opentelemetry-)collector:dev and otel/(opentelemetry-)collector:stable ?

@dmitryax @owais any thoughts on what would be best practices for naming Dockerhub images?

[tigrannajaryan]

I don't know about you guys, but otel as the organization name is flat out confusing and not even slightly discoverable.

The docker image based on this repo should be one of:

* `opentelemetry/collector`

* `opentelemetry/opentelemetry-collector`

This scheme works for countless other organizations. otel is just way too inside-baseball to assume people are going to know to search and recognize it as an official source. It's like putting your nickname on a government form: At a glance, it earns no legitimacy and serves no purpose but to obscure what's typically interpreted as the organization portion of the image name.

@atrauzzi opentelemetry Dockerhub organization is not available. See previous discussion open-telemetry/community#164

[owais]

I think the docker image should contain the full name because the org is named otel so having opentelemetry in the name helps. Also contributors and users often build images from the repo and use them somewhere without uploading to docker hub. Having such images named just collector doesn't help. I don't have any strong opinion about the docker hub org name but I think container images should definitely continue to be opentelemetry-collector*

[tigrannajaryan]

Closing as it appears there is nothing to do. Feel free to reopen if you have further comments.