The image never reaches the API server. What reaches it is a few hundred bytes of YAML. Tracing the real path from a commit to a process inside a container — a chain of independent loops, none of which knows the others exist.
I thought I understood net/http's connection pool. Then I found out the pool key ignores the path entirely, and that my own Transport config had silently turned off HTTP/2. Three discoveries, measured with httptrace.