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Re:Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never w... by fweimer on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:18AM (#46392888)
These days, people solve similar problems by wrapping their data in an OCI container image and distribute it through one of the container registries that do not have a practically meaningful pull rate limit. Not really a joke, unfortunately.
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Re:Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never w... by mystifyingpoi on Friday December 26, 2025 @02:33PM (#46395347)
Even Amazon encourages this, probably not intentionally, more like as a bandaid for bad EKS config that people can do by mistake, but still - you can pull 5 terabytes from ECR for free under their free tier each month.
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Re:Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never w... by XorNot on Friday December 26, 2025 @05:16PM (#46396923)
I'd say it'd just Kubernetes in general should've shipped with a storage engine and an installation mechanism.

It's a very hacky feeling addon that RKE2 has a distributed internal registry if you enable it and use it in a very specific way.

For the rate at which people love just shipping a Helm chart, it's actually absurdly hard to ship a self contained installation without just trying to hit internet resources.

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