[sirius87]

Base images are already available on different container image hosting platforms. For instance, ubuntu is here [1] on Amazon ECR. So it's matter of updating Dockerfiles to use them.

There again there's the question of finding image sources you can trust to be updated and secure. Docker Hub has a "Docker Official Image" tag for critical base images that are managed by each community.

[1] https://gallery.ecr.aws/ubuntu/ubuntu

[krab]

That's my point - that it's entirely possible to not rely on the single central repository.

Re. finding the sources, a central namespace may still be useful, hence the use of caching proxies.