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Can kraken be used for distributing large blobs of any type?

Open bnitin opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

Kraken supports the ability to distribute docker images and it supports docker interface.

I'm wondering if the Kraken infrastructure can be used to distribute just about anything (a random blob stored on some supported backend).

I've had someone ask me that they want to distribute large files to hundreds of hosts across the world.

bnitin avatar Aug 18 '20 23:08 bnitin

Yes. However there is one requirement - blobs need to be content-addressable (name = SHA256 hash of content). Otherwise, the user would need to create a custom origin backend and a custom tracker backend that can do this translation.

yiranwang52 avatar Aug 19 '20 00:08 yiranwang52