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Reject building new images named "scratch"

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, go, kubernetes
Domain
cli, security

Research direction

The issue names no files or tests. Start by locating Docker CLI entry points for building images and interacting with them, then determine how names matching scratch are handled. Done means new images named scratch are rejected and interactions with spoofed stock images produce warnings, with tests covering both behaviors.

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Description

kind/feature status/0-triage
Description

Docker should not allow images to be named scratch, as that may lead to accidents.

Docker (and Kubernetes) should warn when interacting with images that spoof the stock scratch image.

Dominant language
Go
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Merged PRs (30d)
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