[REQ] windows container support

[sozercan]

What kind of request is this?

New feature

What is your request or suggestion?

Copa can not patch windows containers today because windows containers don't have a package manager to be able to update system dependencies.

There are no plans for adding this functionality to copa unless someone can write a design doc on how would this work. Suggestions are welcome!

Since Windows publishes an entire container base image with security updates every patch tuesday, crane's rebase tool might be a way to update the base but this is not tested https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd/crane/rebase.md

Are you willing to submit PRs to contribute to this feature request?

• Yes, I am willing to implement it.

[ritazh]

Just to add:

• winget does not handle system deps
• a full windows update would be needed