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This is fundamentally a business strategy problem on docker side. Docker hasn't really managed to find product market fit...and the one leverage point they hav
by Havoc 8mo ago
This is fundamentally a business strategy problem on docker side.
Docker hasn't really managed to find product market fit...and the one leverage point they have is that they're the central hub. So they're actively incentivized to not make this more efficient
Was setting up local caches for arch and docker and the difference is stunning. The one is a 10 minute exercise to get flawless local lan speed caching the other is a perilous journey
- a_t48 8mo agoThe other issue is that it's not like they can go back and run this deduplication after the fact. Image layers are stored as a single gzipped tar of the contents on the layer. You can't just pull a single file out of that. If you go and reorganize as multiple gzip streams, you'll change the digest of the layer. A new registry could do that reorganization on import (and return the digest), or provide tooling to build the layers in the right format to begin with.