Docker Image Internals and OCI Spec

Docker images are OCI-compliant stacks of content-addressed layer tarballs plus a JSON config and a manifest. Understanding digests vs tags, image indexes for multi-platform, and the registry API explains why docker pull nginx and docker pull nginx@sha256:abc produce different trust guarantees — and how to transfer images to air-gapped environments.

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