Adolfo Ochagavía

I should preface this by saying that I figure you know all this, but I'm laying it out anyway. :)

Theoretically (I haven't read the parent article yet) it's just GET and HEAD requests for a Docker Registry[1], so if CloudFlare or another CDN supports large binary files, you could cache the images from the low cost box.

That said, obviously I'm suggesting adding "cloud" CDN infrastructure to your tiny ARM box. In a more normal scenario, most would probably pick a free Docker Registry and just upload a mirror of the images to multiple registries to spread out the bandwidth load. E.g. Docker Hub, GitHub, etc.

For a better solution, don't serve 10GB container images. Instead, start from someone else's 10GB container image and add the layers you need on top of it. Or consider a solution where you don't need to ship 10GB of data in your application, but could perhaps side-load only the necessary data.

Another workaround: because Docker images can be pushed and pulled with identical signatures, it's also possible to encourage your end users to keep their own Docker registry of the image and refer to it from an internal or private copy of the image. This is a best practice for pretty much every kind of production deployment of a Docker container, so you don't have 100s of boxes pulling from your shared infrastructure, and leads to more reliable Docker deployments. An example is, in fact, pulling an image - because it stores a copy locally that you can refer to and run multiple…

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