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Glossary

Ref-engine discovery

A service that suggests possible ref engines for resolving a given image name.

CAS engine

A service that provides access to content-addressable storage.

Merkle root

The root node in a Merkle tree. In the OCI ecosystem, Merkle links are made via descriptors. The Merkle root may be a descriptor (media type application/vnd.oci.descriptor.v1+json), or it may have a different media type. Merkle roots may suggest CAS engines, e.g. via a casEngines entry in their JSON, but that is out of scope for ref-engine discovery.

Ref engine

A service that maps an image name to a set of potential Merkle roots.