Advice on dealing with large docker images

[mdehling]

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Hi all,

I am trying to use a docker image hosted on hub.docker.com for one of my codespaces. The issue I'm having is that the image has one large layer (~2gb) and creating a codespace fails because docker can't seem to download it. The download is fast at first, becomes slow, times out & retries. Unfortunately I can't really change the size of the layer since it's caused by a single large package (nvidia-cuda-dev.)

Any ideas what I could try? Is this an issue with docker (the software), hub.docker.com, github, ...?

Thanks!

[mdehling]

The repository in question is https://github.com/mdehling/kolkin-style-transport (the devcontainer 'test' config) in case someone else wants to try and replicate the issue.

[mdehling]

Using 'US East' region instead of 'US West' solves this for me. Still not sure if the issue is on GitHub's or Docker's side.