MSR cache deployment scenario

MSR caches running in different geographic locations can provide your users with greater efficiency and shorten the amount of time required to pull images from MSR.

Consider a scenario in which you are running an MSR instance that is installed in the United States, with a user base that includes developers located in the United States, Asia, and Europe. The US-based developers can pull their images from MSR quickly, however those working in Asia and Europe have to contend with unacceptably long wait times to pull the same images. You can address this issue by deploying MSR caches in Asia and Europe, thus reducing the wait time for developers located in those areas.

The described MSR cache scenario requires three datacenters:

  1. US-based datacenter, running MSR configured for high availability

  2. Asia-based datacenter, running an MSR cache that is configured to fetch images from MSR

  3. Europe-based datacenter, running an MSR cache that is configured to fetch images from MSR

For information on datacenter configuration, refer to MSR cache prerequisites.