This is interesting and seems general purpose. Not merely for container images. There’s this option for OCI containers which I don’t pretend to understand: htt

This is interesting and seems general purpose. Not merely for container images. There’s this option for OCI containers which I don’t pretend to understand: https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter It is used by containerd and nerdctl. You do have to build the image with it. Images work in OCI compatible registry. By fetching most used files first container can be started before loading is finished. Or so I gather.