DADI - Block-Level Image Service for Agile and Elastic Application Deployment

Explore a conference talk on DADI, a block-level image service designed to enhance agile and elastic application deployment. Discover how this innovative solution from Alibaba Group revolutionizes container cluster creation and updating by replacing the traditional waterfall model with fine-grained on-demand transfer of remote images. Learn about DADI's peer-to-peer architecture for balancing network traffic in large clusters and its support for various runtimes. Gain insights into the performance results showcasing DADI's ability to cold start 10,000 containers on 1,000 hosts within 4 seconds, demonstrating its effectiveness in one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms.

Introduction
Remote Image
File System vs Block Device
Background Connector
Core Components
Data Path
Layers
Indexing
Index Performance
Append Only
Statistics
Tree Structure
Shared Storage
Results