TIL that there's an IPFS solution to host docker containers allowing us to have a fully decentralized hub.

@polluterofminds and @stevedylandev.eth did you know this project?

  https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/blob/main/docs/ipfs.md

Thanks to @v1rtl.eth for sharing it with me

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FYI just throwing on IPFS doesn't make things decentralized, it makes them contents addressed. To decentralize them you'd need to replicate containers on multiple nodes, otherwise it's centrally hosted like a regular registry

You can pin images, right? If you do that, it will be decentralized to some extent. 

I always thought that BitTorrent could be a nice transport layer for containers as well.

pinning doesn't make stuff "decentralized". it makes sure your files don't get garbage collected by the network

Yes, but it assures that it will be the file somewhere else, correct? If it is cloned somewhere else, then, we are "ensuring that as long as the file is pinned" the file wont dissapear even though one service shuts down. Is this correct?

yes pinning is kind of like a backup, or telling your node/network to not GC the file. Essentially it could be used as a backup system or a distributed CDN of independent nodes