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2025

Inspecting container images with ctr

Today I've learned about ctr tool -- internal demonstration client for containerd by its developers. containerd is widely used container runtime.

And mentioned tool has some interesting practical capabilities: for me it was especially the ability to mount image as fs to host. Because I need to inspect docker images from time to time.

Forget About Python Reqs Install Time in CI

The speed of uv combined with GitLab CI/CD cache enables near-instantaneous installation of Python requirements compared to pip. Stop helping entropy rise in your CI/CD.

Here, I’ll show a simple example of using native uv package management in your pipeline. You can easily adapt the same approach for uv pip or even pip itself.