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P2P Docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds

21 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 2 stories, 19 comments · first 2019-03-05 · latest 2025-09-23

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  1. Uber built Kraken to solve the same problem with distributing images: https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by achalshah · 2025-09-23 · in Thundering herd problem: Preventing the stampede
  2. > Like container registries? https://github.com/uber/kraken exists, using a modified BT protocol, but unless you are distributing quite large images to a very large number of nodes, a centralized registry is probably faster, simpler and…
    comment by trenchpilgrim · 2025-09-22 · in Download responsibly
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    Uber Kraken is back? New releases
    story by vkoshkarov · 2025-09-17 · 0 comments
  4. Like a P2P Docker registry? https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by kirici · 2025-02-21 · in Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1
  5. 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…
    comment by apichat · 2024-04-16 · in BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
  6. …of data in seconds". It uses the bittorrent protocol to deliver docker images to large clusters. https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by infogulch · 2024-04-16 · in BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
  7. Uber did it too. Kraken is docker registry that gossips containers via bittorrent. https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by notpeter · 2023-03-08 · in How we deploy faster with warm Docker containers
  8. …to rule them all seems elegant but is actually overgeneralized, and specialization is better. 1 https://github.com/uber/kraken 2 https://d7y.io/
    comment by danmcs · 2022-09-22 · in MinIO passes 1B cumulative Docker Pulls
  9. …the registry. https://github.com/senthilrch/kube-fledged https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly2 https://github.com/uber/kraken https://nydus.dev/
    comment by tecleandor · 2022-08-01 · in Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
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    Kraken – P2P Docker Registry
    story by tehlike · 2020-11-03 · 14 comments
  11. https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by closeparen · 2020-08-24 · in Docker to rate limit image pulls
  12. …it for Docker![0, 1, 2] [0]: https://coreos.com/blog/torrent-pulls [1]: https://d7y.io/en-us/ [2]: https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by Nullabillity · 2020-08-24 · in Docker to rate limit image pulls
  13. …but is there a well-known community sponsored public peer-to-peer registry service, based on https://github.com/uber/kraken perhaps?
    comment by displague · 2020-08-13 · in Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts
  14. …kraken) with production, production will get the image (though it may never run the image). [0]: https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2020-06-15 · in CapRover: Build your own PaaS
  15. similar to Uber's Kraken https://github.com/uber/kraken which to choose? Which is better?
    comment by wyy1995 · 2020-04-12 · in Dragonfly, an Open-Source P2P-Based Image and File Distribution System
  16. Sounds similar to Uber's Kraken https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by chokolad · 2020-04-12 · in Dragonfly, an Open-Source P2P-Based Image and File Distribution System
  17. …reader? :) For the case of distributing containers in a datacenter with P2P, theres also this work: https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by tln · 2020-02-27 · in New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution
  18. …distribute it/load it into other boxes 0: https://docs.docker.com/registry/recipes/mirror/ 1: https://github.com/uber/kraken 2: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/save/
    comment by LethargicStud · 2019-10-15 · in Docker Hub Registry is down
  19. …using something like BitTorrent sync. I believe this is the basic concept of Uber's Kraken project: https://github.com/uber/kraken I think it's a really clever idea, but I can also predict that a lot of enterprise companies will hear…
    comment by jacques_chester · 2019-05-17 · in The Future of Docker Containers
  20. Kraken was already taken[0] [0] https://github.com/uber/kraken
    comment by spyspy · 2019-03-26 · in Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
  21. Kraken's readme included comparison with Dragonfly: https://github.com/uber/kraken#comparison-with-other-project...
    comment by monoian · 2019-03-05 · in Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry