Can't pull images from dockerhub, missing manifests

[t0rrant]

From at least last Thursday I could no longer pull flowcraft images from the docker registry. The error states that there are missing manifests. Other images from the community or official images work fine in any of my setups.

Example

# for f in "${flowcraft[@]}"; do docker pull $f; done
Using default tag: latest
Error response from daemon: manifest for flowcraft/fastqc:latest not found
Using default tag: latest
Error response from daemon: manifest for flowcraft/trimmomatic:latest not found
Using default tag: latest
Error response from daemon: manifest for flowcraft/true_coverage:latest not found
Using default tag: latest
Error response from daemon: manifest for flowcraft/spades:latest not found
Using default tag: latest
Error response from daemon: manifest for flowcraft/bowtie2_samtools:latest not found
Using default tag: latest
Error response from daemon: manifest for flowcraft/pilon:latest not found

Versions

Shifter: 18.03.0
Docker: 18.09.2, build 6247962

[cimendes]

Hello!

Sorry for the very late reply! I see that you're trying to pull the images using "latest" as tag (this is default docker behavior). In our docker hub repos we never use the latest tag, favoring instead to have the tool version and build as tag. For example, for SPAdes it should be docker pull flowcraft/spades:3.12.0-1

Can you confirm that when you correct the tag version you're able to successfully pull the image?

[t0rrant]

Hi @cimendes,

yes, when specifying a version it works. The idea behind not using the latest is due to different types of tests for each different version right?

[cimendes]

Hello. It's a way to easily identify which software version corresponds to each container. For flowcraft we use these tags to keep track of the tool version implemented in each component.
A "latest" tag can could be added, with the most recent version of a container, but for the sake of reproducibility and validation, we avoid it.