Hi everyone, sorry about the outage (which appears to be now fixed). I don't know what caused it but I'm sure the Hub team will post a post-mortem soon.
My educated guess is that it has something to do with our recent move off of Dotcloud as part as the sale to Cloud Control [1]. In my experience, migrations always introduce unexpected moving parts which can lead to service disruption in spite of thorough preparation.
Note on the registry being "just a crud server". That's true, I suppose. But at very large scale everything gets harder to do reliably.
About decentralization: there is a major development thread underway to make images self-describing. Once that is implemented, the naming of images will be decorrelated from their method of delivery, there is already talk of a bittorrent and ipfs plugin :)
>What's stopping open source infrastructure supporting magnet URLs? :)
This actually sounds like a good idea. Is it a good idea? I suppose many distributed systems use hash rings and the like already, but I don't remember ever seeing them exposed to users as urls like bittorrent does.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 35.1 ms ] threadWhat's stopping open source infrastructure supporting magnet URLs? :)
I wonder what the reason for the outage is. I am pretty sure the Docker team is qualified enough to prevent failures caused by a SPOF.
My educated guess is that it has something to do with our recent move off of Dotcloud as part as the sale to Cloud Control [1]. In my experience, migrations always introduce unexpected moving parts which can lead to service disruption in spite of thorough preparation.
Note on the registry being "just a crud server". That's true, I suppose. But at very large scale everything gets harder to do reliably.
About decentralization: there is a major development thread underway to make images self-describing. Once that is implemented, the naming of images will be decorrelated from their method of delivery, there is already talk of a bittorrent and ipfs plugin :)
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/04/docker-sells-dotcloud-to-cl...
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/6805
This actually sounds like a good idea. Is it a good idea? I suppose many distributed systems use hash rings and the like already, but I don't remember ever seeing them exposed to users as urls like bittorrent does.
What does Docker to centrally that requires a third party service?
This analogy might help: Docker Registry is to Docker as Github is to Git.
Thanks