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Can we just get the big three cloud players to make a new public repo? They’ve got oodles of bandwidth and storage, plus the advantage that a lot of access woul
by koolba 4y ago
Can we just get the big three cloud players to make a new public repo? They’ve got oodles of bandwidth and storage, plus the advantage that a lot of access would be local to their private networks.
Setup a non-profit, dedicate resources from each of them spendable as $X dollars of credits, and this problem is solved in a way that works for the real world. Not some federated mess that will never get off the ground.
- pimterry 4y agoConsensus on a new repo for public community images would help, but it isn't the biggest problem (as the author notes, GHCR does that already, and GitHub seem pretty committed to free hosting for public data, and have the Microsoft money to keep doing so indefinitely if they like). The issue I worry about is the millions of blog posts, CI builds, docker-compose files, tutorials & individual user scripts who all reference community images on Docker Hub, a huge percentage of which are about to disappear, apparently all at once 29 days from now. From a business perspective particularly, this looks like suicide to me - if you teach everybody "oh this guide uses Docker commands, it must be outdated & broken like all the others" then you're paving a path for everybody to dump the technology entirely. It's the exact opposite of a sensible devrel strategy. And a huge number of their paying customers will be affected too! Most companies invested enough in Docker tech to be paying Docker Inc right now surely use >0 community images in their infrastructure, and they're going to see this breakage. Docker Inc even directly charge for pulling lots of images from Docker Hub right now, and this seems likely to actively stop people doing that (moving them all to GHCR etc) and thereby _reduce_ the offering they're charging for! It's bizarre. Seems like a bad result for the industry in general, but an even worse result for Docker Inc.
- JustBreath 4y agoYeah that's going to be the real issue, all the niche unmaintained images that no one is going to pick up the pieces for. They're taking a big chunk of open source and tossing it in the garbage.
- miyuru 4y agoaws already have one https://gallery.ecr.aws/ https://gallery.ecr.aws/
- schneems 4y agoMy team used ECR for some stuff and it’s not great. We want to move on from it.
- Mustard_D 4y agoMy team also user ECR, but I've not got any complaints. What issues do you have with it?
- schneems 4y agoIt’s constantly getting rate limited in CI then we have to re-run tests due to flappy failures. Maybe it’s an easy fix or something we did wrong, but we have a parallel system on DockerHub that just works™
- 8organicbits 4y agoUnlimited free downloads inside AWS. First 5TB of outbound transfer free. Then $0.09/GB for additional transfer. https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/pricing/
- remram 4y agoquay.io is a pretty popular general-purpose repo, it replaced docker.io for many projects when they started rate-limiting.
- jacooper 4y agoThere is no free tier https://quay.io/plans/ https://quay.io/plans/
- stbenjam 4y ago> Can I use Quay for free? > Yes! We offer unlimited storage and serving of public repositories. We strongly believe in the open source community and will do what we can to help! It’s completely free for public repositories.