Registries After Dark
Explore the unconventional side of container registries in this 28-minute conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022. Delve into the hidden potential of registries beyond their typical image distribution role. Discover how registries can serve self-modifying and dynamically generated images, and learn about innovative client utilizations such as content-addressable key-value stores and general-purpose directed acyclic graph databases. Gain insights into the guarantees provided by OCI images and registries, and understand how to leverage the registry's flexibility for unique use cases. Presented by Daniel Mangum from Upbound and Jon Johnson from Google, this talk challenges conventional perceptions of registries and unveils their untapped capabilities.