GKE image streaming for fast application startup and autoscaling

I feel like "a hold my beer" version of this just accepts webhooks from your artifact registry and pre-pulls new versions of running images, or maybe images that node has seen in the last X hours

Wondering if it can speed up docker image pulls in Gitlab CI runners

> revolutionary

...

> caching

There was a time when Google did more engineering than marketing.

Caching is just part of it, to ensure faster download on nearby nodes, the revolutionary thing is that even 100 GB image can be started in a few seconds, and files streamed when accessed.

It's not a new idea, I remember at least one project from a few years ago, which used a modified Docker engine to download accessed files on-the-fly, but this is the first time a cloud provider offers it.