Re:Docker to rate limit image pulls
by chrissoundz on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:30PM
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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.
Re:Docker to rate limit image pulls
by withinboredom on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:33PM
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- 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.
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.
Re:Docker to rate limit image pulls
by jacques_chester on Monday August 24, 2020 @07:44PM
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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.
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).
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.