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MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by reconnecting »

elAhmo wrote: post #438
reconnecting wrote: post #428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe it's too early to judge public adoption. Let's see in a few years if it degrades somehow. For now, they jumped from 55,880 to 56,319 GitHub stars in one day. From the product side, I don't see how this should affect new adopters who didn't read the hn post yesterday

GitHub stars are useless metric.

If stars are useless here, I see that only one contributor is left after all that happened yesterday (505 to 504).

It's not changing the fact that it's too premature to reflect on public adoption at this moment.

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

Since the whole docker thing where people were complaining about having to pay 10USD, I am happy when OSS projects pull the rug, tech bros you're paid to solve your company's issues, nobody in OSS owes you anything, go earn your salary and build the docker image that fix the CVE, or stfu

We all know you don't care about loyalty correctness or anything, you just someone to do the work you're paid for

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by forgetfulness »

benterix wrote: post #445
baq wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I built my first Slackware box from source. How times changed.

Sad to break it to you but it was 30 years ago. We have a tendency to stick to what we know but everything changes constantly and us being connected amplifies that.

I imagine that this makes it much less viable for hobby use, or as a dependency for other open source projects, but setting up a private docker registry and building this image nightly isn’t onerous for any business

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by reconnecting »

msarrel wrote: post #446
elAhmo wrote: post #438

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub stars are useless metric.

Almost as useless as docker pulls, and MinIO claims both as vanity metrics.

OK, have a look at GitHub contributors metric. 404 today, 405 yesterday.

Just to clarify, I'm not affiliated with or protecting MinIO, I don't know anything about this software. But it seems to me that there's some overreaction about Docker here, and in reality it is highly possible that this decision might not affect the product the way it's being discussed these days.

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by antiloper »

Jeslijar wrote: post #434

I'll let docker's security team know that an insecure, obsolete docker image is being served and the maintainers have officially acknowledged they will no longer support it. Best to get insecure and vulnerable software out of the hands of those who may not be familiar with this CVE or their change in policy that has not gotten a press release in any way.

You're letting docker's security team know that they're serving Ubuntu 14.10? https://hub.docker.com/layers/library/ubuntu/14.10/images/sh...

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by Spivak »

ecshafer wrote: post #435

Ceph is an open source project run by a foundation. Minio is a company backed by VCs looking for a return. There is also seaweedfs, powerscale, openstack swift and hyperstore. The S3 compatible space is crowded.

Ceph is absolutely lovely and rock solid. Can't recommend it enough.

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by reconnecting »

vbezhenar wrote: post #440
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #427

Maintaining docker builds isn’t that huge of a burden (and likely very useful for them too), and they’re delegating hosting to a third party… I don’t get what they’re trying to achieve here.

They're trying to force some free users to pay them for binary builds.

Are they?

I even checked the pricing page, and there is no mention of any builds as paid features.

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by idkcomputers »

elAhmo wrote: post #437
baq wrote: post #436

> We’ve started distributing our software for free > nice > We’ve stopped distributing our software for free > How dare you!

That is not the problem here.

You're right. This is like they've stopped offering free gift wrapping. You can take it home in the plain package for free if you want.

Re: MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Post by NewJazz »

Jeslijar wrote: post #448
pelagicAustral wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone seem to already be at it on Discussions https://github.com/minio/minio/discussions/21655 > I felt it might be appropriate for me to reach out as one of the stewards of the Docker Official Images program.

So that's not the same thing. Docker "official images" are a category of curated docker images. Minio is not one of them. The official curated images are here: https://hub.docker.com/u/library The minio image is basically a community one that anyone could have created, but still shows in overall docker hub. It's created by minio themselves. I'm kind of surprised they haven't removed it, but with over a billion downlo…

Did you read the discussion? The docker steward is proposing making a docker "official" minio image to replace the minio/minio image.
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