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Introducing GKE Image Streaming For Fast Application Startup And Autoscaling

We’re excited to announce the general availability of a new feature in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): image streaming. This revolutionary GKE feature has the potential to drastically improve your application scale-up time, allowing you to respond to increased user demand more rapidly, and save money by provisioning less spare capacity. We achieve this by reducing the image pull-time for your container from several minutes (in the case of large images) to a couple of seconds (irrespective of container size), and allowing your application to start booting immediately while GKE streams the container data in parallel. The way Kubernetes traditionally works when scaling…
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Hack Your Own Custom Domains For Container Registry

If you serve public container images from Container Registry or Artifact Registry, you are exposing your project ID and other details to your users downloading this image. However, by writing a small middleware and running it serverless, you can customize how your registry works. In this article, I would like to show you how you can develop and run a serverless reverse proxy to customize the behavior of your registry, such as serving your images publicly on your custom domain name instead of gcr.io.   Anatomy of a “docker pull” Serving container images from a container registry is not magical. All container image…
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