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would enterprizes have paid for dockerhub from day1? it's very unlikely. also they are in a tough spot, because if they limit the download of the most popular

by pas 4y ago

would enterprizes have paid for dockerhub from day1? it's very unlikely. also they are in a tough spot, because if they limit the download of the most popular images, they limit their own basic usability, and those images happen to be almost all free super-fungible stuff (alpine, ubuntu, node, redis, postgresql, nginx, apache, and all the hundreds and thousands of common stuff FOSS stuff) tying downloads to clients requires some development, requires setting up rate-limiting, etc. I think what they ended up doing is not a terrible outcome (require login above a certain number of pulls, plus - I imagine - they require login if an IP address pulls too much anyway), but they can't really charge too much, because setting up a caching proxy is kind of trivial.

justsomehnguy 4y ago
> would enterprizes have paid for dockerhub from day1? it's very unlikely. For their private 'hubs'? Pretty likely. The usual SaaS stuff. "You can run it at home, with bells and whistles, but you can just pay us...". Add in some corporate mumbo jumbo about auditing, logging, archiving et cetera, et cetera. > also they are in a tough spot, because if they limit the download of the most popular images They did it eventually, though from the other end. > and those images happen to be almost all free super-fungible stuff Yep, this is what eventually became their success story - providing a service everyone uses without even thinking about it. > tying downloads to clients requires some development, requires setting up rate-limiting, etc. Aaand this is exactly what they did. > because setting up a caching proxy is kind of trivial. It's the question of convenience. Anyone can spin-up a private registry (pulling from https://hub.docker.com/_/registry/ https://hub.docker.com/_/registry/, heh) but it's PITA to configure, maintain, care. Setting up a caching proxy.. Probably can be done, but again, this requires the resources, both hardware and very software.

by pas 4y ago

justsomehnguy 4y ago

> would enterprizes have paid for dockerhub from day1? it's very unlikely. For their private 'hubs'? Pretty likely. The usual SaaS stuff. "You can run it at home, with bells and whistles, but you can just pay us...". Add in some corporate mumbo jumbo about auditing, logging, archiving et cetera, et cetera. > also they are in a tough spot, because if they limit the download of the most popular images They did it eventually, though from the other end. > and those images happen to be almost all free super-fungible stuff Yep, this is what eventually became their success story - providing a service everyone uses without even thinking about it. > tying downloads to clients requires some development, requires setting up rate-limiting, etc. Aaand this is exactly what they did. > because setting up a caching proxy is kind of trivial. It's the question of convenience. Anyone can spin-up a private registry (pulling from https://hub.docker.com/_/registry/ https://hub.docker.com/_/registry/, heh) but it's PITA to configure, maintain, care. Setting up a caching proxy.. Probably can be done, but again, this requires the resources, both hardware and very software.