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Does anyone have any good ideas on how the Docker Hub could be monetized in a way that's user friendly and makes sense? AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean and even

by nickjj 6y ago

Does anyone have any good ideas on how the Docker Hub could be monetized in a way that's user friendly and makes sense? AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean and even GitHub / GitLab all have private container registry offerings. If your stack is on X provider, chances are you're going to use their private registry service instead of using the Docker Hub because you've gone all-in with that provider. That means private repos alone isn't enough to get folks to pay for Docker Hub.

withinboredom 6y ago
- Keep the 100 pulls for Docker anon users, but make it monthly. - Every user gets 600 pulls per month for free. - Pre/post pay per pull or buy a rate plan. Something like $100USD === 10,000 pulls on "pay-as-you-go" and prepay could reduce the cost per pull.
chrissoundz 6y ago
I think there was a lot of potential to be made in the service/support aspect of containerization of applications - configuring appropriate dependencies etc. Now probably not so much - most people have probably painstakingly learnt the knowledge by now. Maybe even some kind of container marketplace. Otherwise, I don't think it's practical to have docker itself as a commercial product.
bpfrh 6y ago
take over supply checks? E.g. make base images for programming languages, systems, etc and guarantee security. I think many small companies would like it a lot better if they got could externalize the cost of running docker images with all their dependencies.
- jacques_chester 6y ago
  This what Cloud Native Buildpacks do. There are already three major suppliers of these: Heroku, Paketo (by Cloud Foundry folks), and Google Cloud. I'd be pretty thrilled if Docker encouraged buildpack use. It would be a huge win for them.
Leo_Verto 6y ago
Currently the state of Github Packages' Docker UX is terribly and ironically it doesn't integrate well with Github Actions (or at least it didn't when I tried it to months ago).
- judge2020 6y ago
  And the pricing is still horrible. $0.25/gb for storage and $0.50/gb for data transfer is pretty rough since you end up pushing even Docker Hub image layers to GHP.

by nickjj 6y ago

withinboredom 6y ago

- Keep the 100 pulls for Docker anon users, but make it monthly. - Every user gets 600 pulls per month for free. - Pre/post pay per pull or buy a rate plan. Something like $100USD === 10,000 pulls on "pay-as-you-go" and prepay could reduce the cost per pull.

chrissoundz 6y ago

I think there was a lot of potential to be made in the service/support aspect of containerization of applications - configuring appropriate dependencies etc. Now probably not so much - most people have probably painstakingly learnt the knowledge by now. Maybe even some kind of container marketplace. Otherwise, I don't think it's practical to have docker itself as a commercial product.

bpfrh 6y ago

take over supply checks? E.g. make base images for programming languages, systems, etc and guarantee security. I think many small companies would like it a lot better if they got could externalize the cost of running docker images with all their dependencies.

jacques_chester 6y ago
This what Cloud Native Buildpacks do. There are already three major suppliers of these: Heroku, Paketo (by Cloud Foundry folks), and Google Cloud. I'd be pretty thrilled if Docker encouraged buildpack use. It would be a huge win for them.

Leo_Verto 6y ago

Currently the state of Github Packages' Docker UX is terribly and ironically it doesn't integrate well with Github Actions (or at least it didn't when I tried it to months ago).

judge2020 6y ago
And the pricing is still horrible. $0.25/gb for storage and $0.50/gb for data transfer is pretty rough since you end up pushing even Docker Hub image layers to GHP.