--- title: Lazily Pulling Container Images with Podman and SOCI... description: BuildBuddy achieved a ~10x reduction in container image pull latency (from ~30s to ~4s) by implementing lazy image distribution using the SOCI Snapshotter with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/lazily-pulling-container-images-with-podman-and-soci-snapshotter-ekl6v7jk7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Lazily Pulling Container Images with Podman and SOCI Snapshotter | daily.dev og:description: BuildBuddy achieved a ~10x reduction in container image pull latency (from ~30s to ~4s) by implementing lazy image distribution using the SOCI Snapshotter with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/lazily-pulling-container-images-with-podman-and-soci-snapshotter-ekl6v7jk7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EKL6v7jk7.png og:image:alt: Lazily Pulling Container Images with Podman and SOCI Snapshotter og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Lazily Pulling Container Images with Podman and SOCI Snapshotter **[BuildBuddy Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/buildbuddy)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary BuildBuddy achieved a ~10x reduction in container image pull latency (from ~30s to ~4s) by implementing lazy image distribution using the SOCI Snapshotter with Podman. The team ported Podman support from stargz-snapshotter to soci-snapshotter, and built a custom artifact storage mechanism using BuildBuddy's content-addressable cache to avoid requiring write access to customer registries. The post covers the technical architecture, authorization handling, cache eviction strategy, several bugs encountered (race conditions, go-fuse Lseek issues, expired credentials), and the phased production rollout. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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