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When Kubernetes restarts your pod — And when it doesn’t
A production internals guide verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GACompanion repository: github.com/opscart/k8s-pod-restart-mechanics The terminology problem Engineers say “the pod restarted” when they mean four different things. Getting this wrong leads to flawed runbooks and bad on-call decisions....
March 17, 2026 | Shamsher Khan, Project Maintainer
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Lightweight Dragonfly Deployment: P2P Distribution Without the Database Stack
Dragonfly speeds up file and container image distribution using peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, but a standard installation deploys several components and dependencies. Beyond the Scheduler, Seed Client, and Client that move data, a traditional setup requires a...
August 13, 2026 | Wenbo Qi (Gaius), Dragonfly Maintainer
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Dragonfly v2.5.0 is released
Dragonfly v2.5.0 is released! Thanks to all of the contributors who made this Dragonfly release happen. New features and enhancements Direct repository downloads from Hugging Face and ModelScope Dragonfly Client now supports directly downloading model repositories...
June 30, 2026 | Gaius Qi, Dragonfly Maintainer
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Peer-to-Peer acceleration for AI model distribution with Dragonfly
The problem: AI model distribution is broken at scale Large-scale AI model distribution presents challenges in performance, efficiency, and cost. Consider a typical scenario: an ML platform team manages a Kubernetes cluster with 200 GPU nodes....
April 6, 2026 | Pavan Madduri, CNCF Kubestronaut
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The weight of AI models: Why infrastructure always arrives slowly
As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organizations face a critical bottleneck that is often overlooked until it becomes a serious obstacle: reliably managing and distributing large model weight files at scale. A model’s weights serve as...
March 27, 2026 | Wenbo Qi (Dragonfly/ModelPack Maintainer), Chenyu Zhang (Harbor/ModelPack Maintainer) and Feynman Zhou (ORAS Maintainer and CNCF Ambassador)
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Dragonfly v2.4.0 is released
Dragonfly v2.4.0 is released! Thanks to all of the contributors who made this Dragonfly release happen. New features and enhancements load-aware scheduling algorithm A two-stage scheduling algorithm combining central scheduling with node-level secondary scheduling to optimize...
February 5, 2026 | epower
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Dragonfly v2.3.0 has been released
Dragonfly v2.3.0 is released! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to the contributors who made this release happen. We welcome you to visit d7y.io website to learn more. Features Persistent Cache Task It designs to provide persistent caching for tasks. This tool can import...
August 15, 2025 | Dragonfly Team
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Gerardo López
Get to know Gerardo Gerardo is a passionate Cloud Native Advocate, Kubernetes expert, and Docker Captain with a strong focus on DevOps, software development, and security. Based in Costa Rica, he has earned several certifications, including...
March 6, 2025
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Fuzzing the CNCF landscape in 2024
By Chris Aniszczyk (CNCF), Adam Korczynski (Ada Logics), David Korczynski (Ada Logics) CNCF maintains a high level of security for its projects by way of a series of initiatives such as security auditing, supply-chain assessments and...
January 13, 2025 | Chris Aniszczyk + Adam Korczynski + David Korczynski
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Dragonfly v2.2.0 has been released
Dragonfly v2.2.0 is released! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks the contributors who made this release happend and welcome you to visit d7y.io website. Features Client written in Rust The client is written in Rust, offering advantages such as ensuring...
January 7, 2025
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Triton Server accelerates distribution of models based on Dragonfly
Project post by Yufei Chen, Miao Hao, and Min Huang, Dragonfly project This document will help you experience how to use dragonfly with TritonServe. During the downloading of models, the file size is large and there...
April 15, 2024 | Yufei Chen, Miao Hao, and Min Huang
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Dragonfly accelerates distribution of large files with Git LFS
Project post by Wenbo Qi of Dragonfly What is Git LFS? Git LFS (Large File Storage) is an open-source extension for Git that enables users to handle large files more efficiently in Git repositories. Git is...
January 15, 2024 | Wenbo Qi
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TorchServe accelerates the distribution of models based on Dragonfly
Project post by Congwang Li, Dragonfly This document will help you experience how to use dragonfly with TorchServe. During the downloading of models, the file size is large and there are many services downloading the files...
December 6, 2023 | Congwang Li
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Hugging Face accelerates distribution of models and datasets based on Dragonfly
Project post by Gaius, Dragonfly Maintainer This document will help you experience how to use dragonfly with hugging face. During the downloading of datasets or models, the file size is large and there are many services...
November 16, 2023
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Dragonfly completes security audit!
Project post originally published on the Dragonfly blog This summer, over four engineer weeks, Trail of Bits and OSTIF collaborated on a security audit of Dragonfly2. A CNCF Incubating Project, Dragonfly2 functions as file distribution for peer-to-peer technologies. Included in the scope...
September 15, 2023 | Dragonfly maintainers
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Using dragonfly to distribute images and files for multi-cluster kuberenetes
Dragonfly provides efficient, stable, securefile distribution and image acceleration based on p2p technology to be the best practice and standard solution in cloud native architectures. It is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) as an...
September 1, 2023
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Dragonfly v2.1.0 is released!
Project post from the Dragonfly maintainers Dragonfly v2.1.0 is released! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to the Xinxin Zhao[1] for helping to refactor the console[2] and the manager provides a new console for users to operate Dragonfly. Welcome to...
August 7, 2023
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Ant Group security technology’s Nydus and Dragonfly image acceleration practices
Guest post by Dragonfly maintainers Introduction ZOLOZ is a global security and risk management platform under Ant Group. Through biometric, big data analysis, and artificial intelligence technologies, ZOLOZ provides safe and convenient security and risk management...
May 1, 2023
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Volcano Engine: distributed image acceleration practice based on Dragonfly
Project post by Gaius, Dragonfly Maintainer Terms and definitions Term Definition OCI The Open Container Initiative is a Linux Foundation project launched by Docker in June 2015 to design open standards for operating system-level virtualization (and...
April 13, 2023
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Dragonfly v2.0.9 is released!
Project post originally published on Github by Dragonfly maintainers Dragonfly v2.0.9 is released! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Team, Volcano Engine Team, and Baidu AI Cloud Team for helping Dragonfly integrate with their...
March 20, 2023
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Dragonfly integrates nydus for image acceleration practice
Guest post originally published on the Dragonfly blog by Gaius Introduce definition Dragonfly has been selected and put into production use by many Internet companies since its open source in 2017, and entered CNCF in October 2018,...
November 21, 2022 | Gaius