docker/metadata-action

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GitHub Action to extract metadata (tags, labels) from Git reference and GitHub events for Docker

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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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30 open issues indexed

Expose sanitized image name Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

docker/metadata-action#709 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Better document `latest` tag (`flavor.latest=auto` default vs `type=raw,value=latest`) Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

docker/metadata-action#593 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 27, 2026
Better document implicit defaults of `labels`/`annotations` Open

kind/enhancement status/triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

docker/metadata-action#592 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Add a `{{ main_version }}` expression Open

kind/enhancement status/triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#591 · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Add a `{{ license }}` global expression Open

kind/enhancement status/triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

docker/metadata-action#585 · Opened Jan 18, 2026
Empty labels should be omitted Open

kind/enhancement status/triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#584 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 18, 2026
Support Bake output with attributes (instead of only a target) Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#570 · Opened Nov 28, 2025
Improve error message for invalid global expression Open

kind/enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#545 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2025
Version metadata not working in v5.8.0 Open

status/needs-more-info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#543 · 5 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2025
when using labels across multiple tags, the label is only applied to 1 of the tags (at random) Open

kind/upstream status/needs-more-info

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

docker/metadata-action#534 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Support `merge_group` events for `type=ref` tags Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

docker/metadata-action#529 · Opened Jun 25, 2025
Support for setting OCI-Metadata in Output Object Open

kind/enhancement status/triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#527 · Opened Jun 16, 2025
`::error::other side closed` failed in riscv64 Open

runner/gitea status/needs-investigation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

docker/metadata-action#495 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2025
Expose pull request head ref as `{{branch}}` variable Open

kind/enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

docker/metadata-action#485 · 1 comment · 9 reactions · Opened Nov 26, 2024
Enable Flag in Raw Tag does not work as expected Open

status/needs-investigation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#461 · 9 comments · Opened Oct 7, 2024
Strip the prefix `v` from tags created on release event Open

status/needs-investigation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

docker/metadata-action#422 · 14 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 14, 2024
Add an annotation/label of the github actions job url that created the image Open

kind/enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#416 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2024
Automatically Tag Latest Official Version with 'latest' in Docker Repository Based on Semantic Versioning Open

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docker/metadata-action#407 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 30, 2024
refs with uppercase characters trigger an error in buildx (branch names with uppercase characters) Open

status/needs-more-info

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

docker/metadata-action#405 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 16, 2024
`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` is not respected Open

kind/enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#403 · 4 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Apr 6, 2024
Generating tags for multiple bake targets Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#398 · 5 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 1, 2024
semver tag : allow outputing build information (part after plus) Open

kind/enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#384 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2024
Flavor is ignored in output, despite being parsed properly Open

kind/enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

docker/metadata-action#270 · 7 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 4, 2023
Support workflow_run events Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#259 · 7 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 16, 2023
Would you consider ref tag type without event? Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#253 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 9, 2023
Add label customization/options Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#243 · 7 reactions · Opened Nov 12, 2022
Number of revs Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#218 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 30, 2022
Proposal to add an input to allow fail on warnings Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#200 · 5 comments · 6 reactions · Opened May 3, 2022
Handle multiple prefixes with Bake Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

docker/metadata-action#124 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 24, 2021
semver based on branch names Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

docker/metadata-action#98 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 28, 2021

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