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Show HN: Docker pulls more than it needs to - and how we can fix it

via Hacker Newsa_t484h ago

Hi all! I've built a small tool to visualize how inefficient `docker pull` is, in preparation for standing up a new Docker registry + transport. It's bugged me for a while that updating one dependency with Docker drags along many other changes. It's a huge problem with Docker+robotics. With dozens or hundreds of dependencies, there's no "right" way to organize the layers that doesn't end up invalidating a bunch of layers on a single dependency update - and this is ignoring things like compiled code, embedded ML weights, etc. Even worse, many robotics deployments are on terrible internet, either due to being out in the boonies or due to customer shenanagins. I've been up at 4AM before supporting a field tech who needs to pull 100MB of mostly unchanged Docker layers to 8 robots on a 1Mbps connnection. (and I don't think that robotics is the only industry that runs into this, either - see the ollama example, that's a painful pull) What if Docker were smarter and knew about the files were

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