Allow setting KO_DOCKER_REPO in .ko.yaml

[embano1]

Based on a Twitter conversation, it was raised whether KO_DOCKER_REPO should also be a configuration option in .ko.yaml (mainly for consistency purposes).

IMHO since this is not a build but publish option, it might have to go in PublishOptions parsing (related: #351).

[developer-guy]

will you work on that @embano1? 🙋🏻‍♂️

[developer-guy]

@imjasonh maybe we can do both #626, WDYT, if you agree, I'm willing to do this one too

[imjasonh]

Sure!

My only real question is what do we want it to look like in .ko.yaml? A new top-level repo: field? Something else? Give me your ideas!

[embano1]

Initially I thought a top-level string:string field would work, e.g. imageRepository: myrepository.somewhere.out.

Then I thought, how likely is it that multiple images should be pushed to different registries/locations? I.e. something similar we do with baseImageOverride and build for different binaries?

[developer-guy]

hello @embano1, you can keep up the process from here, please feel free to add your comments to the PR. 🙋🏻‍♂️

[imjasonh]

Then I thought, how likely is it that multiple images should be pushed to different registries/locations?

ko doesn't support this at all today. In the spirit of not scope-creeping this, I'd like to maintain something like the current behavior, and just push to a single repo per ko invocation.

[laurentsimon]

Hw about tags? Can they also be included in the .ko.yaml file to tag each build individually? Shall I create a tracking issue for this or there's a reason for not doing that?

[imjasonh]

What's your use case for wanting each image in a ko resolve to get different tags? 🤔

The typical use case for tags is associating images with a release (:v1.2.3), which generally means all the images in a set of images should have the same tag.

[laurentsimon]

oops, sorry. I'm interested in different tags for ko publish only. I was hoping I could generate/push multiple images with distinct tags.

[imjasonh]

oops, sorry. I'm interested in different tags for ko publish only. I was hoping I could generate/push multiple images with distinct tags.

ko build only builds one image today (at least until #644 lands), and even when it doesn't I think I'd like to recommend that all invocations produce the same tags, for more or less the same reason as ko resolve does today.

You can already ko build ./ -t foo -t bar to produce one image with both :foo and :bar, but I don't think I want to support any situation where tags are selectively applied to images without a strong indication of the use case.

[developer-guy]

kindly ping @imjasonh

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