Pushing an image to VIC Appliance registry that has been previously deleted

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article provides details on how to push an image to the VIC Appliance Registry which has been previously pushed to, and deleted.

Symptoms:
You see a message similar to the following when pushing an image that has been previously pushed and deleted from the VIC Appliance:
 

The push refers to repository [VIC_APPLIANCE_FQDN/PROJECT_NAME/IMAGE:TAG]
ID: Layer already exists
ID: Layer already exists
ID: Layer already exists
ID: Layer already exists
ID: Layer already exists
latest: digest: sha256:CHECKSUM_VALUE size: 1367

Environment

VMware vSphere Integrated Containers 1.5.x

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting vSphere Integrated Containers. There is currently no resolution.

Workaround:

1. Open a SSH session to the VIC Appliance
2. Run the following commands to clear the records in the database:

• Launch a bash shell into the Redis Container of the VIC Appliance

docker exec -it redis /bin/bash

• Launch the redis-cli application

redis-cli

• Switch to database 1

select 1

• Execute the Flush DB command

flushdb

• Exit the redis-cli

exit

• Exit the BASH Shell

exit

3. Push the docker image to the VIC Appliance registry