If your C suite is personally approving a $5/month charge, your organization is likely no where near the size where a change like this from Docker impacts you.
Or maybe your organization is a public institution, where each penny spent needs to be authorized/accounted for.
Even in a public institution that has never failed an audit, I have trouble believing $5/mo is a hard thing to get. Technically, its $60/year fee because its one of those annual plans. We pay for vultr with no drama.
I originally came here to ask how folks use that many docker images in six hours (I'm mostly a Docker n00b, and not being facetious); however, after reading the article, I clicked to see how much unlimited is and it's $5 a month. Now my question has changed to: is $5 a month really a deal breaker for folks to get unlimited? Or what are the use cases where the cost is prohibitive? Open source or community projects? In…
>Now my question has changed to: is $5 a month really a deal breaker for folks to get unlimited? I want to speed forward 5 years and see how well this ages. It reminds me of all the other comments about "of course Facebook will never require an account to use your VR headset"...
I think it will age fine. If every ad-supported website switched to this model, I'd be paying for either zero or one websites.
If it was $5 for access that would be a completely different situation, but a big free tier followed by $5 for unlimited is fine.
I originally came here to ask how folks use that many docker images in six hours (I'm mostly a Docker n00b, and not being facetious); however, after reading the article, I clicked to see how much unlimited is and it's $5 a month. Now my question has changed to: is $5 a month really a deal breaker for folks to get unlimited? Or what are the use cases where the cost is prohibitive? Open source or community projects? In…
The limit for unauthenticated users is by IP address. I could imagine a smallish business that has a consistent on-ramp IP for their users that could breach the limit not on any single user but in aggregate.
I do sympathize with Docker though: Storage and bandwidth at that scale isn’t cheap and they need to monetize somehow.
I originally came here to ask how folks use that many docker images in six hours (I'm mostly a Docker n00b, and not being facetious); however, after reading the article, I clicked to see how much unlimited is and it's $5 a month. Now my question has changed to: is $5 a month really a deal breaker for folks to get unlimited? Or what are the use cases where the cost is prohibitive? Open source or community projects? In…
$5/month isn't $5/month. It's convincing your boss you need $5/month, because they need to convince their boss, which eventually makes its way up the chain to C-levels, who don't know Docker from yesterday's rotting tuna casserole and view eating either that or the $5/month with the same level of disdain. It isn't about the money, it's about the Mommy-May-I up and down the chain with emails and meetings and careful e…
$5/month isn't $5/month. It's convincing your boss you need $5/month, because they need to convince their boss, which eventually makes its way up the chain to C-levels, who don't know Docker from yesterday's rotting tuna casserole and view eating either that or the $5/month with the same level of disdain. It isn't about the money, it's about the Mommy-May-I up and down the chain with emails and meetings and careful e…
>It's convincing your boss you need $5/month, because they need to convince their boss, which eventually makes its way up the chain to C-levels, who don't know Docker from yesterday's rotting tuna casserole and view eating either that or the $5/month with the same level of disdain. this is where miracle of enterprise sales happen - the $5 subscription can be sold as a $50K+ deal by smooth enterprise sales who will pr…
Just promise to give the exec a keynote time slot where he can describe the ROI of the 50k deal. Helpfully, the vendor will provide an Excel doc that lets you calculate the benefits. You don’t even have to realize them, just aspire to. From there, the C-level gets some fawning press coverage for their LinkedIn profile and a set of job offers at the next-size-up organization where they can also level up on comp...
There is very little reason for a build node to need to pull 200 images in 6 hours, and here is why: When a machine issues a ``docker build`` command, the program reads the relevant dockerfile to check for any base images that need to be pulled (a la "FROM:") These base images are identified based on the image repository, image name, and image tag. The first thing docker does is it checks its local registry and tries…
Lots of tools built on top of Docker do imbue special meaning in latest, however.
Want to see if you're affected? kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -ojson | jq -r '.items[].spec | .containers[] // [] += .initContainers[] // [] | .image' | sort | uniq | less ... and look for anything that's not from a private registry that you control. Give people two months to migrate? What a nightmare.
Giving people over a certain limit two months to migrate or set up a cache or give them a few dollars. What a non-nightmare.
It’s not common to need that many pulls nor is it hard to build your own images. If you’re deploying to a cluster with 200 machines, you could easily hit this if you use the public registry though. However, if you’re managing that size cluster you can probably afford the fee, but more importantly, you should probably pull once to a local registry and use that to deploy to your cluster anyway.
Do you run a local registry? Any high-quality articles/youtube talks to share? I'm about to set one up for our own little cluster (~5 machines, ~75 containers). I know tons about docker engine, and a fair bit about the registry, but it's always nice to watch a "lessons learned from actually doing this in production" talk to know what mistakes to avoid
Personally, I wish generic caching proxies were still a thing, and easier to set up. I've tried setting up squid several times in the past, and failed miserably every single time--all I want to do is use it as a gateway (ie, make the proxy invisible to the application) for e.g. apt packages, so I just ended up using apt-cache or whatever other appropriate software, but I'd far rather use something generic that just works on 90% of the software I use at home, whether it's reading webcomics or repeatedly installing the same software in a dozen VMs with slightly different configurations, or even just browsing remote filesystems via webdav.
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…
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).
It’s not common to need that many pulls nor is it hard to build your own images. If you’re deploying to a cluster with 200 machines, you could easily hit this if you use the public registry though. However, if you’re managing that size cluster you can probably afford the fee, but more importantly, you should probably pull once to a local registry and use that to deploy to your cluster anyway.
Do you run a local registry? Any high-quality articles/youtube talks to share? I'm about to set one up for our own little cluster (~5 machines, ~75 containers). I know tons about docker engine, and a fair bit about the registry, but it's always nice to watch a "lessons learned from actually doing this in production" talk to know what mistakes to avoid
you can set it up in less 10 min and the only thing required is to add '--insecure-registry' in your client. It is not a issue if all your machine are in private network.