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by xnxn 4138 days ago
To clarify, I don't want to run my own registry and I don't want to rely on any third party for image hosting. I just want to pull tarballs from a dumb file server. No need to run a registry for that, and no one company has a privileged position in the namespace.

It's maddening, because I love Docker-the-concept but not Docker-the-implementation nor Docker-the-ecosystem. I honestly do understand how many would find the UX of "Docker, Inc. at the center of things" to be a refreshing convenience, but to me that notion is frustrating and repellent, as much so as if Git remotes defaulted to GitHub.
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bmelton 4138 days ago
> I just want to pull tarballs from a dumb file server.

Is there something I'm missing that you couldn't just use wget? If you have the URIs, I can't imagine how pulling down an image by name would be more than a quarter-page Python script, even if you include the untarring and such.

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xnxn 4138 days ago
Yeah, that's about what I've been doing, but AFAICT I lose the benefits of layering when I refuse to speak the registry protocol. Docker's export command dumps the entire image tree, so I'm stuck transferring GB-sized payloads to deploy the tiniest change to my app. appc manages to do layers without a coordinating registry. (Kind of funny that CoreOS bought Quay, on that note.)
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