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> Crosby explained that a registry would still be needed to handle the naming of images, but the content address blobs could be transferred from one machine to
by jacques_chester 7y ago
> Crosby explained that a registry would still be needed to handle the naming of images, but the content address blobs could be transferred from one machine to another without the need to directly interact with the registry. In the P2P model for image delivery, a registry could send a container image to one node, and then users could share and distribute images using something like BitTorrent sync.
I believe this is the basic concept of Uber's Kraken project: https://github.com/uber/kraken https://github.com/uber/kraken
I think it's a really clever idea, but I can also predict that a lot of enterprise companies will hear "bittorrent" and nope their way out of it.
- jjeaff 7y agoI don't think many non-tech savvy people even know what BitTorrent is. So its mention is not going to trigger much one way or another. The only enterprises that would have an issue with are going to be companies in the media space.
- jacques_chester 7y agoEnterprises tend to have tech staff. Thousands is not atypical. I assume some of them have heard of it.
- hecturchi 7y agoOr way simpler: https://github.com/docker/distribution/pull/2906 https://github.com/docker/distribution/pull/2906 Unfortunately the whole project seems abandoned...