We are currently in a stage where containers are deployed everywhere from applications in cluster orchestrators to development environments and build systems. As we move towards such a huge scale, the time to start a new container becomes a bottleneck in all our workflows.
The time to pull images from the registry is a significant contributor to this startup time. Lazy loading of images is one method in which the startup time can be improved and in this talk we will dive into stargz snapshotter and estargz image format which achieves the same in docker, containerd and kubernetes environments.