The good news is you don't have to use GCP! The very nice people over there have made them available for anyone - https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/d

The good news is you don't have to use GCP! The very nice people over there have made them available for anyone - https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/managed-base-images https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/managed-bas... So, to be clear, no matter what cloud you use, if you create a Dockerfile like the following: FROM launcher.gcr.io/google/ubuntu16_04:latest CMD echo "foobar" This should work fine. Disclosure: I work at Microsoft on Azure.