HackerReposA FIELD GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE
ProSponsor the shelf♧ 0
← Back to top all-time
uber
kraken
Go2019–2025
uber / kraken

kraken

P2P Docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds

21Distinct people
21Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6.8KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

P2P Docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year21 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-03-05 23:06:41 UTC to 2025-09-23 20:42:51 UTC.

024682019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413

What Hacker News says

4 sources
1) You can run your own pull-through cache[0] 2) You can use a different registry 3) Run something like kraken[1] so machines can share already-downloaded images with eachother 4) If you need an emergency response, you can docker save[2] an image on a box that has it cached and manually distribute it/load it into other boxes 0: https://docs.docker.com/registry/recipes/mirror/ 1: https://github.com/uber/kraken 2: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/save/
In Docker Hub Registry is down
> Crosby explained that a registry would still be needed to handle the naming of images, but the content address blobs could be transferred from one machine to another without the need to directly interact with the registry. In the P2P model for image delivery, a registry could send a container image to one node, and then users could share and distribute images using something like BitTorrent sync. I believe this is the basic concept of Uber's Kraken project: https://github.com/uber/kraken I think it's a really clever idea, but I can also predict that a lot of enterprise companies will hear "bittorrent" and nope their way out of it.
In The Future of Docker Containers

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A few shortcuts

/
Search the collection
?
Open this guide
Esc
Close dialogs and navigation

Your saved repositories and interests stay in this browser.