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kraken
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BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem)
https://github.com/uber/kraken?tab=readme-ov-file#comparison...
"Kraken was initially built with a BitTorrent driver, however, we ended up implementing our P2P driver based on BitTorrent protocol to allow for tighter integration with storage solutions and more control over performance optimizations.
Kraken's problem space is slightly different than what BitTorrent was designed for. Kraken's goal is to reduce global max download time and communication overhead in a stable environment, while BitTorrent was designed for an unpredictable and adversarial environment, so it needs to preserve more copies of scarce data and defend against malicious or bad behaving peers.
Despite the differences, we re-examine Kraken's protocol from time to time, and if it's feasible, we hope to make it compatible with BitTorrent again."
It's not an overlay provider itself, but uber/kraken is a "P2P Docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds". It uses the bittorrent protocol to deliver docker images to large clusters.
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Resilient image cache/mirror
https://github.com/uber/kraken is promising, still new but it's not that complicated to go awry
Kraken seems unmaintained: https://github.com/uber/kraken/issues/313
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DockerHub replacement stratagy and options
For within your boundary of control, whether that be r/selfhosting, r/homelab, or enterprise a small registry or something like uber's kraken registry makes more sense.
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MinIO passes 1B cumulative Docker Pulls
Uber Engineering open-sourced Kraken [1], their peer-to-peer docker registry. I remember it originally using the BitTorrent protocol but in their readme they now say it is "based on BitTorrent" due to different tradeoffs they needed to make.
As far as I know there aren't any projects doing peer-to-peer distribution of container images to servers, probably because it's useful to be able to use a stock docker daemon on your server. The Kraken page references Dragonfly [2] but I haven't grokked it yet, it might be that.
It's also possible that in practice you'd want your CI nodes optimized for compute because they're doing a lot of work, your registry hosts for bandwidth, and your servers again for compute, and having one daemon to rule them all seems elegant but is actually overgeneralized, and specialization is better.
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Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
If you're pulling big images you could try kube-fledged (it's the simplest option, a CRD that works like a pre-puller for your images), or if you have a big cluster you can try a p2p distributor, like kraken or dragonfly2.
Also there's that project called Nydus that allows starting up big containers way faster. IIRC, starts the container before pulling the whole image, and begins to pull data as needed from the registry.
https://github.com/senthilrch/kube-fledged
https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly2
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Kube-fledged: Cache Container Images in Kubernetes
Uber Kraken: Kraken is a P2P Docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds (URL: https://github.com/uber/kraken)
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How to handle registry outages ? Registry outage contingency plans ?
Might want to consider a private p2p solution like https://github.com/uber/kraken or similar.
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How to handle locally build container images across nodes? Container Registry the only way?
Cost, availability, upkeep. Same as any other service. There are alternatives… https://github.com/uber/kraken
kube-fledged
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Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback
Exactly. Part of the appeal to consolidate all of our container images to use Debian-slim is the ability to optimise the caching of layers, both in our container registry but also on our kubernetes cluster’s nodes (which can be done in a consistent manner with kube-fledged[1]).
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Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
If you're pulling big images you could try kube-fledged (it's the simplest option, a CRD that works like a pre-puller for your images), or if you have a big cluster you can try a p2p distributor, like kraken or dragonfly2.
Also there's that project called Nydus that allows starting up big containers way faster. IIRC, starts the container before pulling the whole image, and begins to pull data as needed from the registry.
https://github.com/senthilrch/kube-fledged
https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly2
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Interesting tools?
kube fledged - pre pull containes in nodes: https://github.com/senthilrch/kube-fledged
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Kube-fledged: Cache Container Images in Kubernetes
kube-fledged is a kubernetes add-on or operator for creating and managing a cache of container images directly on the worker nodes of a kubernetes cluster. It allows a user to define a list of images and onto which worker nodes those images should be cached (i.e. pulled). As a result, application pods start almost instantly, since the images need not be pulled from the registry. kube-fledged provides CRUD APIs to manage the lifecycle of the image cache, and supports several configurable parameters in order to customize the functioning as per one’s needs. (URL: https://github.com/senthilrch/kube-fledged)
- Introducing GKE image streaming for fast application startup and autoscaling
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Can Kubernetes pre-pull and cache images?
I found recently this tool kube-fledged that should do what you want..
Kube-Fledged can handle this for you.
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Best way to mirror images to improve their availability for a cluster?
I recommend you also look at kube-fledged this is more appealing IMHO.
What are some alternatives?
Dragonfly - This repository has be archived and moved to the new repository https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly2.
ImageWolf - Fast Distribution of Docker Images on Clusters
image-cache-daemon
containers-roadmap - This is the public roadmap for AWS container services (ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS).
deckschrubber - Deckschrubber inspects images of a Docker Registry and removes those older than a given age. :high_brightness::ship:
kubefwd - Bulk port forwarding Kubernetes services for local development.
ipdr - 🐋 IPFS-backed Docker Registry
stargz-snapshotter - Fast container image distribution plugin with lazy pulling
tagger - Kubernetes container image orchestration.