What’s Up?
Kinda sucked having Blender.org besieged for a few days by the DDOS attack, and I completely empathise with all the Blender technical staff who battled to get blender.org back up.
The issue I’m facing now is that I can’t build our docker images automatically anymore.
Understandably, the download.blender.org subdomain is protected by Cloud Flare now, this, however, prevents us from running our dockerfile successfully as one of the layers pulls Blender from download.blender.com
That subdomain still loads in a browser fine, once you pass the security challenge, but our docker script fails as does our github actions file which attempts to build docker images on the github platform.
Can I ask?
Sooooo, is there any plan to allow scripts that download blender to work? Completely understand if not since the attacks, would just like to know if anyone has asked about this already and if there’s any thoughts about it.
We make images that contain Blender and are part of a distributed rendering solution, other studios may also use docker for rendering in the cloud since docker is a pretty neat way of packaging up your config and running it anywhere.
Being able to quickly generate new images is very useful, so if there’s any suggestions on a workaround, other than manually downloading Blender and then mounting it in the image, would be very keen to hear about it!
Thanks guys!
both of those will work by the looks of things, hoping the attacks have calmed down now. I suppose I can use those mirrors as a fall back and at least try to pull from the official