Recovering layers of a container

A system comprising:

• a memory comprising computer readable instructions;
• and
• a processing device for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions controlling the processing device to perform operations comprising:
• downloading a container image from an image repository;
• deploying the container image as a container at a local graph;
• identifying an image layer of the container image of the container as having a patch in error;
• and
• performing at least one of recovering and rebasing the image layer having the patch in error without redeploying the container image at the local graph or restarting a service running the container or the container,
• wherein rebasing the image layer comprises relocating a difference property for the image layer having the patch in error to a diff-rebase folder within a diff-relocation storage level, the diff-relation storage level comprising the diff-rebase folder and a diff-removal folder for managing layer versions and masking erroneous layers.

A computer program product comprising:

• a set of one or more computer-readable storage media;
• program instructions, collectively stored in the set of one or more storage media, for causing a processor set to perform the following computer operations:
• downloading a container image from an image repository;
• deploying the container image as a container at a local graph;
• identifying an image layer of the container image of the container as having a patch in error;
• and
• performing at least one of recovering and rebasing the image layer having the patch in error without redeploying the container image at the local graph or restarting a service running the container or the container,
• wherein rebasing the image layer comprises relocating a difference property for the image layer having the patch in error to a diff-rebase folder within a diff-relocation storage level, the diff-relation storage level comprising the diff-rebase folder and a diff-removal folder for managing layer versions and masking erroneous layers.