buildah does not report progress when pulling images

[jawnsy]

I thought skopeo needed to copy images from, e.g. DockerHub, and make them available before buildah runs, but it turns out that you can just: buildah from centos and it'll pull the image from DockerHub if needed. That's really great from a UX perspective, but it's hard to tell that's what is happening, since there's no progress indication.

Can we add some sort of status information (e.g. pulling image, pulling layers, etc) similar to how docker does it with its build/run commands?

[nalind]

Are we talking about logging the pulling of an image as a single log entry, or a full-blown progress bar?

[rhatdan]

I think some code was added to container/image to make this work with skopeo? @runcom

[runcom]

Yes, just pass an io.Writer to the copy.Image call

[TomSweeneyRedHat]

We probably want to document the io.Writer trick as an example somewhere. Perhaps as part of the examples for the manpages? I know today buildah took a 10+ minute nap on me before it finally responded and having some kind of progress indicator would have been nice.

[rhatdan]

I think we should turn it on by default and than add a --quiet option to buildah from.

[nalind]

[buildah] Report progress when pulling or committing images, like skopeo does