Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1

Re:Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Dock... by Mekoloto on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:01PM (#43129954)

Why is there no P2P option?

I would be happy to give back to the community by hosting a container p2p host.

would that be even possible out of the box?

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Re:Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Dock... by kevmo314 on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:20PM (#43130218)

I don't think it would be possible out of the box: Docker pulls assume a direct HTTP download for the image. It would be pretty cool to build a proxy that acts as a torrent client for images however it would be a lot less ergonomic to use on top of the security risk of tags not being checksums.

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Re:Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Dock... by _verandaguy on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:18PM (#43130192)

There _sort-of_ is. You can pull from registries other than Docker Hub (these can be run by anyone with the will and resources to do so -- GHCR is a popular one), though these may have their own usage restrictions.

You can run your own following Docker's own guide here[0] if you'd like. It's not peer-to-peer in the sense that the lines between clients and servers are blurred, as with torrenting, but it allows for a distributed registry architecture, which I think is the part that matters here.

  [0] https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-use-your-own-registry-2/

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