Local realities.
WHAT CONSTRAINS THIS WORK HERE
Bandwidth cost and speed for image transfer Latency to distant registries and clusters Power affecting local machines Foreign-currency pricing for managed platforms
WHAT IMAGE SIZE MEANS HERE
More than elsewhere.
WHY
Every deployment pulls, and large images cost time and data.
WHAT TO DO
Multi-stage builds, minimal bases, and shared layers.
WHAT A LOCAL REGISTRY MIRROR PROVIDES
Public images cached nearby, pulled once.
WHY THAT IS WORTH THE EFFORT
It removes repeated large downloads over an expensive link.
WHAT TO CONSIDER ABOUT CLUSTER LOCATION
Latency for anyone administering it Where the users are
WHAT TO PREFER FOR A SMALL BUSINESS
Containers on one or two servers, with a proxy.
WHY
The cost and expertise a cluster demands rarely pay back at that scale.
WHAT TO BE REALISTIC ABOUT
Whether anyone on the team can diagnose a cluster at three in the morning.
WHAT TO BUILD FOR
Deployments interrupted by connection loss.
WHAT THAT MEANS
Running deployments in a persistent session Pipelines that resume rather than restart
WHAT TO KEEP LOCALLY
Documentation and recovery procedures.
WHAT TO TEST
Pull and deploy times on a realistic connection.
