https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/issues/1270
OCI image-spec, Issue 1270: request to add an import mechanism to oci image format, to reduce bandwidth cost on image upgrades
1. The problem
For example, now you be an architect, holding a java application (or a python one, not really matters), depend on 100+
jar dependencies;
each dependency has a file size at about 200kb—50mb.
And as you need to distribute this application as a docker image, you want to make the bandwidth transfer as efficient
as possible.
For our long-term customer, you need to make the update package as small as possible, so that they can update the
application with the least bandwidth cost.
(actually the real situation I’m facing here is this is not network transfer, but local usb installer package transfer (
due to security reason), but the principle is the same.).
