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Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

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Re: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

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Post by toastal »

Quekid5 wrote: post #5

Are they actively trying to hasten their own demise? I guess I'll be moving our (FOSS) container images to GitHub Registry... but what a pain :/

Can you move to GitLab? GitHub is purely proprietary which doesn't match the spirit of FOSS. At least GitLab is open core.

Re: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

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Post by jon-wood »

Docker the tool has been a massive benefit to software development, every now and then I have a moan about the hassle of getting something bootstrapped to run on Docker, but it's still worlds better than the old ways of managing dependencies and making sure everyone on a project is aligned on what versions of things are installed.

Unfortunately Docker the company appears to be dying, this is the latest in a long line of decisions that are clearly being made because they can't work out how to build a business around what is at it's core a nice UI for Linux containers. My hope is that before the inevitable shuttering of Docker Inc another organisations (ideally a coop of some variety, but that's probably wishful thinking) pops up to take over the bits that matter, and then hopefully we can all stop trying to keep up with the latest way in which our workflows have been broken to try and make a few dollars.

Re: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

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Post by candiddevmike »

Quekid5 wrote: post #5

Are they actively trying to hasten their own demise? I guess I'll be moving our (FOSS) container images to GitHub Registry... but what a pain :/

Just did this yesterday, it was surprisingly easy. I used the HashiCorp Vault secrets plugin for GitHub and pushed containers via GitHub Actions, so for me it became more secure than storing and retrieving a docker hub API key.

Re: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

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Post by martypitt »

toastal wrote: post #11
Quekid5 wrote: post #5

Are they actively trying to hasten their own demise? I guess I'll be moving our (FOSS) container images to GitHub Registry... but what a pain :/

Can you move to GitLab? GitHub is purely proprietary which doesn't match the spirit of FOSS. At least GitLab is open core.

Gitlab have been increasing pricing heavily recently, especially in storage-heavy areas such as containers.

I don't think they're likely to be a cost-effective differentiator against what Docker are now charging.

Re: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

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Post by jck »

toastal wrote: post #11
Quekid5 wrote: post #5

Are they actively trying to hasten their own demise? I guess I'll be moving our (FOSS) container images to GitHub Registry... but what a pain :/

Can you move to GitLab? GitHub is purely proprietary which doesn't match the spirit of FOSS. At least GitLab is open core.

iirc gitlab's free tier has a storage and bandwidth limit which applies to the container registry too. That makes gitlab a no go if you want to share containers widely.

Re: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

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Post by frognumber »

jon-wood wrote: post #13

Docker the tool has been a massive benefit to software development, every now and then I have a moan about the hassle of getting something bootstrapped to run on Docker, but it's still worlds better than the old ways of managing dependencies and making sure everyone on a project is aligned on what versions of things are installed. Unfortunately Docker the company appears to be dying, this is the latest in a long line…

Do you remember SCO?

Re: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

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Post by bandrami »

jszymborski wrote: post #15

Has there been any work on making these centralised public repositories distributed?

What work needs to be done? Provision a server somewhere and host it. AWS has one-click "give me a docker hub" and "give me a git hub" products.
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