# combine manifest lists

This tool combines two Docker manifest lists ("multi-arch images") into one that provides all the platforms supported by both manifest lists.

It fails if both images provide the same platforms, or if either isn't a manifest list.

# demo

```
$ go run ./ \
    gcr.io/distroless/static:nonroot \
    mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:1809 \
    gcr.io/imjasonh/combined
```

This combines the [distroless](https://github.com/googlecontainertools/distroless) image providing linux platform support with an image providing Windows support.

You can check the image's platforms using [`crane`](https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd/crane/README.md):

```
$ crane manifest gcr.io/imjasonh/combined | jq '.manifests[].platform'
{
  "architecture": "amd64",
  "os": "linux"
}
{
  "architecture": "arm",
  "os": "linux"
}
{
  "architecture": "arm64",
  "os": "linux"
}
{
  "architecture": "ppc64le",
  "os": "linux"
}
{
  "architecture": "s390x",
  "os": "linux"
}
{
  "architecture": "amd64",
  "os": "windows",
  "os.version": "10.0.17763.1935"
}
{
  "architecture": "arm",
  "os": "windows",
  "os.version": "10.0.17763.1935"
}
```

The result is an image that provides support for both.
This image is intended to be suitable as a base image used with `ko` to provide multi-arch _and multi-OS_ support for a Go application.