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I recall the early days, the docker registry API was designed in a way that made serving from S3 impossible. It always boggled my mind, because it must have ma
by jopsen 6y ago
I recall the early days, the docker registry API was designed in a way that made serving from S3 impossible.
It always boggled my mind, because it must have made hosting docker hub super expensive.
In hindsight, the registry should have had a better API, been more suited for third-party mirrors, etc. then docker might still own the central registry... Now it seems like eventually they won't even own that.
- temp667 6y agoI had the same thought. There should have been a play where you were the trusted metadata layer (across clouds even), but allowed actual images to come from S3, GCP, Azure directly (ie, serve metadata + hashes / signatures). Obviously AWS and everyone would spin up their own mirrors, lots of bandwidth would be saved (by Docker too) and they would still have a role in the center.