Lazy distribution of container images Current implementation status of containerd remote snapshotter
Channel: FOSDEM
Date: 18/09/2020

by Akihiro Suda

At: FOSDEM 2020
https://video.fosdem.org/2020/UD2.208/containers_lazy_image_distribution.webm

The biggest problem of the OCI Image Spec is that a container cannot be started until all the tarball layers are downloaded, even though more than 90% of the tarball contents are often unneeded for the actual workload.


This session will show state-of-the-art alternative image formats, which allow runtime implementations to start a container without waiting for all its image contents to be locally available.


Especially, this session will put focus on CRFS/stargz and its implementation status in containerd (https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues/3731).
The plan for BuildKit integration will be shown as well.

Room: UD2.208 (Decroly)
Scheduled start: 2020-02-01 09:55:00