Comment by tabwidth
10 hours ago
This isn't really about centralization. ISPs are blocking at the IP level, not Docker Hub specifically. You could self-host a registry behind Cloudflare and still run into the same thing.
10 hours ago
This isn't really about centralization. ISPs are blocking at the IP level, not Docker Hub specifically. You could self-host a registry behind Cloudflare and still run into the same thing.
Self-hosting a registry is objectively “less bad” than relying entirely on docker hub but, unless all your Dockerfiles start with `FROM scratch` you’ll still need access to Docker Hub to pull the base images and their updates, and that’s true regardless of how many people are running their own registries. If instead of relying on a centralized registry, which just so happens to also depend on a centralized CDN, you could instead pull images using something like IPFS or even torrent, not only ISP IP banlists wouldn’t be an issue but you would also eliminate a whole bunch of failure modes from the system.
"Behind Cloudflare" is the centralisation part