benpipe

I’ve been mucking about with the idea of P2P, self-seeding Docker images for a while now. The endgame being unprivileged containers with encrypted IPFS mountpoints that are built from and self-host P2P.

But that’s quite a big project with a lot of moving parts, and getting mounts working is a big enough job in itself.

A step in the right direction would be a tool that you just add to your Dockerfile and add files via a magnet link, and in doing so they get hosted while the container is running. So while trying to get that working, I found myself digging around in the guts of .torrent files in ipython, wishing for a tool that could dump them to something more readable and back again.

So I wrote one, and published it on pypi:

$ pip install benpipe
$ cat file.torrent | benpipe | benpipe > file2.torrent

• source on Github