Direct answer
Container Image, in this relationship map, is limited to the following inspected scope. An OCI image manifest identifies configuration and ordered filesystem layers through typed descriptors and can carry subject and annotation metadata. A descriptor supplies a content identifier and metadata needed to address and retrieve referenced content. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Relationship map
Name the relationship type and direction, then state what does not transfer across the edge.
A relationship does not make two concepts equivalent or transfer evidence, legal authority, or empirical validity.
Applied scope: An OCI image manifest identifies configuration and ordered filesystem layers through typed descriptors and can carry subject and annotation metadata. A descriptor supplies a content identifier and metadata needed to address and retrieve referenced content.
Definition and operating context
The canonical concept owner is maha-research. This route may apply evidence; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
This property may publish research objects, machine-readable provenance, reproduction protocols. It must not publish sales copy or unsupported interpretation.
Evidence and exact locators
OCI Image Manifest Specification — Image manifest property descriptions: schemaVersion, mediaType, artifactType, config, layers, subject, annotations. Establishes: An OCI image manifest identifies configuration and ordered filesystem layers through typed descriptors and can carry subject and annotation metadata.
OCI Content Descriptor Specification — Descriptor properties, especially mediaType, digest, size, urls, annotations and data. Establishes: A descriptor supplies a content identifier and metadata needed to address and retrieve referenced content.
What the evidence does not establish
A manifest does not prove security, provenance, reproducibility, vulnerability state, runtime behavior, authorship, or correctness of the referenced content.
A matching digest identifies bytes, not safety, intent, source truth, availability, completeness, or semantic equivalence across separately built images.
This route must not claim sales copy.
This route must not claim unsupported interpretation.
Related definitions and applications
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/container-image/definition
graphEdges: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/source-identity/definition
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/container-image/fixture
property-home: https://research.mahastrategies.com/
Questions this page can answer
What does Container Image mean in this bounded context?
Container Image, in this relationship map, is limited to the following inspected scope. An OCI image manifest identifies configuration and ordered filesystem layers through typed descriptors and can carry subject and annotation metadata. A descriptor supplies a content identifier and metadata needed to address and retrieve referenced content. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Which inspected sources support this relationships answer?
OCI Image Manifest Specification (served specification inspected 2026-09-06), at Image manifest property descriptions: schemaVersion, mediaType, artifactType, config, layers, subject, annotations, supports an OCI image manifest identifies configuration and ordered filesystem layers through typed descriptors and can carry subject and annotation metadata. OCI Content Descriptor Specification (served specification inspected 2026-09-06), at Descriptor properties, especially mediaType, digest, size, urls, annotations and data, supports a descriptor supplies a content identifier and metadata needed to address and retrieve referenced content.
What does the evidence not establish?
A manifest does not prove security, provenance, reproducibility, vulnerability state, runtime behavior, authorship, or correctness of the referenced content. A matching digest identifies bytes, not safety, intent, source truth, availability, completeness, or semantic equivalence across separately built images. Property boundary: This route may apply evidence; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
Which definition or canonical owner must be read first?
This page is the local maha-research definition for its topic. Related applications may depend on it but may not silently redefine it.
What source, policy, implementation, or release change would require revision?
Re-evaluate this page when a cited source, locator, governing instrument, local implementation, or canonical definition changes. Publication also requires a matching exact-revision review and active canonical release.