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Note that for OSS images, that's a non-trivial thing to do—you have to have somewhere to run the image, and somewhere to store your images (e.g. S3), both of wh
by geerlingguy 6y ago
Note that for OSS images, that's a non-trivial thing to do—you have to have somewhere to run the image, and somewhere to store your images (e.g. S3), both of which are non-free, and would also require more documentation and less discoverability than Docker Hub offers.
- laurencerowe 6y agoGitHub Packages is free for public repositories so seems like a good option for OSS which likely have a GitHub presence already. https://github.com/features/packages https://github.com/features/packages
- GordonS 6y agoHuh, I knew GitHub Packages supported npm, NuGet and Maven, but had no idea it supported Docker images too. My guess is a lot of people don't know this. If it becomes better known, I can imagine something of an exodus from Docker Hub to GitHub Packages for OSS projects.
- laurencerowe 6y agoFurther down someone mentioned that it still requires logging in to download public packages, though they're apparently working on it.
- ithkuil 6y agoCurrently github docker registry is missing some important features, such as arbitrary media types (useful for hosting helm charts and similar things)
- grafelic 6y agoGithub Packages Registry does not support pulling by digest, making it unusable for k8s/OpenShift. https://github.community/t/cannot-pull-docker-image-from-github-package-registry-by-digest/14342/12 https://github.community/t/cannot-pull-docker-image-from-git...
- rumanator 6y agoLast time I checked, GitLab offered a free Docker container registry for all projects.