Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 36 minutes ago
Presenters: Kohei Tokunaga, NTT
Pull is one of the time-consuming steps in the container lifecycle. One of the root causes is the current OCI Image Specification, because it cannot run containers before the entire image contents are locally available. To solve this issue, several OCI-alternative image formats have been proposed in the community for enabling “lazy pulling”: starting up containers without waiting for the entire image. Instead, necessary chunks are fetched on-demand.
Presenters: Kohei Tokunaga, NTT
Pull is one of the time-consuming steps in the container lifecycle. One of the root causes is the current OCI Image Specification, because it cannot run containers before the entire image contents are locally available. To solve this issue, several OCI-alternative image formats have been proposed in the community for enabling “lazy pulling”: starting up containers without waiting for the entire image. Instead, necessary chunks are fetched on-demand.
