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How to set up a registry pull-through cache
Image pulls are slow and you keep hitting Docker Hub rate limits.
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Image pulls are slow and you keep hitting Docker Hub rate limits.
Why it happens
Every job pulls base images across the internet from a shared, rate-limited registry.
How to fix it
- Run a pull-through cache in the same network as your runners
- Point runners at the cache rather than the upstream registry
- It removes both the latency and the rate limit at the same time
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