Matteo Mortari

I believe this was a potential solution for "Serverless logic"-Team + QE (cc @ricardozanini), but it had also drawbacks so I only offered it as a Draft in case of...

> > metadata scraping > > OCI dist-spec v1.1.0 has explicit provisions for this. But can you kindly point to some concrete examples. Personally very curious for examples on this...

Thanks @rchincha , is there a way to avoid having to download the associated metadata, only to query for it locally, and do that "on the OCI registry" server end?...

Thanks @rchincha , reassuring to hear it doesn't need to download actual data, will be looking for a chance to understand in more details from you how OCI dist-spec works...

> [kubernetes/enhancements#4642](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/4642) some overlapping work/groups ... iiuc this would allow "materializing" OCI artifacts as a mounted volume in a container, effectively allowing the "files" inside an OCI artifacts to be...

> For reference, in KServe a workaround for directly accessing files within an OCI image is implemented and available via a sidecar approach ("modelcar") by leveraging root FS system access...

Thank you @rchincha , we indeed noted that blog post as well :) Fyi, we have it in our [live-roadmap](https://github.com/kubeflow/model-registry/issues/175#issue-2396225407:~:text=with%20OCI%20being%20the%20preferred%20option) as a proposal for integration as a preferred storage solution...

I think some comments from Andrey needs to be taken care of, also likely since, the proposed ACL would need to be refreshed if needed. Didn't really have a chance...

@andreyvelich per KF community meeting 2024-08-06, Model Registry is supportive of additional leads as required to progress on the Spark Operator 👍

@andreyvelich - applied all feedback received from you - apologies for the rebase, so commit links in my comment today might no longer work, but hopefully title in commit is...