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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script will build and run OpenRegistry, then build and run
+# the OCI conformance tests against it.
+# It depends on bash, docker and git being available.
+
+set -eu
+
+spec_name=distribution-spec
+spec_version=v1.0.1
+OPENREGISTRY_IMAGE_NAME="openregistry-distribution-build:v$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)"
+
+# check out to OpenRegistry repo
+rm -rf OpenRegistry && git clone git@github.com:containerish/OpenRegistry.git
+pushd OpenRegistry
+docker build -f ./Dockerfile -t "${OPENREGISTRY_IMAGE_NAME}" .
+
+IP=`hostname -I | awk '{print $1}'`
+sed -in "s/OPEN_REGISTRY_ENVIRONMENT=local/OPEN_REGISTRY_ENVIRONMENT=ci/g" env-vars.example
+sed -in "s/OCI_ROOT_URL=http:\/\/0.0.0.0:5000/OCI_ROOT_URL=http:\/\/$IP:5000/g" conformance.vars
+
+echo CI_SYS_ADDR="$IP":5000 >> env-vars.example
+
+docker run --rm -p 5000:5000 --name openregistry -d --env-file=env-vars.example "${OPENREGISTRY_IMAGE_NAME}"
+sleep 5
+curl -XPOST -d '{"email":"johndoe@example.com","username":"johndoe","password":"Qwerty@123"}' "http://0.0.0.0:5000/auth/signup"
+popd
+
+# check out conformance repo
+rm -rf conf-tmp && git clone https://github.com/opencontainers/${spec_name}.git conf-tmp
+pushd conf-tmp/conformance && docker build -t conformance:latest -f Dockerfile .
+popd
+
+docker run --rm \
+  -v $(pwd)/results:/results \
+  -w /results \
+  --env-file=OpenRegistry/conformance.vars \
+  conformance:latest
+
+cp results/report.html ./
+cp results/junit.xml ./
+rm -rf conf-tmp
+docker rm -f openregistry