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The FAQ[0] says pulling an image once every 6 months will prevent it from being purged by resetting the timer. It doesn't seem like a big deal really. It just
by nickjj 6y ago
The FAQ[0] says pulling an image once every 6 months will prevent it from being purged by resetting the timer.
It doesn't seem like a big deal really. It just means old public images from years ago that haven't been pulled or pushed to will get removed.
[0]: https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq
- klysm 6y agolooks like there will be some bots that pull images on a periodic basis cropping up
- dgellow 6y agoYep, everybody will have a small scheduled Github Action pulling their image once per month or similar ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- jacekm 6y agoWhy not just pay this 60$/year? I mean if it's something important then it's worth paying for. If not - there is cheaper storage available when one can archive their containers.
- klysm 6y agoI agree it’s probably better to just pay, but certainly if it’s that cheap to circumvent then people will do it to save $60
- res0nat0r 6y agoEveryone should just start using Googles Cloud Build service IMO, it will cost you pennies. You can literally just do a `docker build -t gcr.io/project/image:0.0.1` and it will automatically tar up and send your build directly to their build service and create the container. It's about the cheapest and easiest build service I've seen. https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build
- mamurphy 6y agoIs there any special evidence to suggest this service will exist a year from now?
- dividedbyzero 6y agoI believe the GCP stuff is relatively stable, at least nothing we're using has disappeared so far over about 3 years (several have been renamed and consolidated, though, but without breaking anything already existing)
- res0nat0r 6y agoLol Google spent over a billion dollars building out their cloud offerings, just last year. The silly cynical view on HN that everything Google runs goes away doesn't apply to their multi-continent multi-billion dollar cloud business.
- dividedbyzero 6y agoNot a lot of money for a viable company, but it might be prohibitive if you're the main contributor to a smaller open source project, and that money will have to come out of your own pocket.
- spiffytech 6y agoThis may not be a big deal for small-time projects. But does this mean e.g., the official Node images for older runtime versions could disappear? I recently needed to revive an app that specifically required node:8.9.4-wheezy, pushed 2 years ago. An image that specific and old will quite possibly hit 0 downloads per 6 months in short order, if it hasn't already.