Yeah, they have an "approval" process for the docker images.... I get it, because they are likely a startup and have to protect against reputational damage from malware etc
What I will try to investigate is if they have an open source equivalent, where people don't need to depend on Flux the company
However, I think for technical reasons, i.e. port forwarding, you would need a provider, unless you are willing to rent a public IP + forwarding or if your ISP supports port forwarding. Mine doesn't
Otherwise the tech stack looks good.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Trash don't want it. That would drastically reduce it's usefulness.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Found the repo: https://github.com/orgs/RunOnFlux/repositories
So it seems you can start your own "Flux", communicate with other Fluxes, release whatever Apps you want...
Seems the image 'approval' is only for their own server/node
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Ok that sounds more useful then.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Ok. Sorry again. I will try it out myself, because I am reading conflicting messages on Reddit etc.
If anything can be hosted, I should be able to run random hello world images or something.
I still also need to understand how the discovery of other nodes works... legal liabilities (what if someone puts CP on my node ?) etc
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
...no, I don't think its how you think. My impression is they want to make sure only "secure" images are available, so likely they will check for malware
Like you said about the Oddyssee and other p2p networks, there is a central provider making the backbone. Flux wouldn't want DDOS agents for example running on their machines or clients' nodes
That being said, I am looking for an open source alternative
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
That should be taken care of in the infrastructure. Each docker container should be limited in it's allowed bandwidth.
It's super important when building apps to just be able to type,
And redeploy. If you have to go through a approval process for each change nothing will ever get done.