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Ask HN: There's multiple wget Docker images with 5M+ pulls. Why?
- wahern 6y agoFor use in Kubernetes containers?
- jalk 6y agoPlenty of kubernetes use cases where fetching some http resource and storing the result in a shared volume where some other container can access it. i.e.: * InitContainer in a pod * step in an Argo Workflow
- readonthegoapp 6y agoI'm assuming the question is more Why are there multiple images doing the same thing?
- utf_8x 6y agohttps://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- paxys 6y agoIs the question why a wget container image exists or why there are multiple versions of it? The former – because it is useful. The latter – because there isn't a single official version so people just created their own, and others started downloading them.