| ▲ | nine_k 5 days ago |
| The news: Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are now free to use for everyone. No reason not to use them. Offering image hardening to custom images looks like a reasonable way for Docker to have a source of sustained income. Regulated industries like banks, insurers, or governmental agencies are likely interested. |
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| ▲ | scottydelta 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| After their last rug pull when they started charging projects for registry after parading it as a fully free service for almost a decade, it has become hard to trust anything free. Bait and switch once the adoption happens has become way too common in the industry. |
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| ▲ | cedws 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Docker is a company I just can’t hate on. They’ve completely transformed how software is deployed. Containers gained so much momentum it kind of outgrew them and they lost a lot of potential business. I would hardly call beginning to charge after a decade of free service a rug pull, especially now that dependence on Docker’s registry is shrinking all the time. | | |
| ▲ | simlevesque 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't hate them. But I don't want to depend on them for any product I manage. | |
| ▲ | verdverm 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Have you checked out Dagger? It's what the people who created OG Docker are building now | | |
| ▲ | scoodah 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Dagger is one of those things I want to like, but find incredibly painful to use in practice. | |
| ▲ | cedws 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I have tried it but wasn't a fan. I tried to convert one of our Actions workflows and that proved to be a PITA that I gave up on. It seems now the project is pivoting into AI stuff. | |
| ▲ | nickstinemates 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well, one of them. |
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| ▲ | politelemon 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Given the wealth and productivity creation that they're responsible for enabling across the industry, they deserve to be paid for it. There is no way for them to have achieved this with zero friction. | | |
| ▲ | acdha 5 days ago | parent [-] | | I totally support companies charging for things which cost money to make but I think the strategy of saying something is free and later reneging is a very risky strategy. You’ll get some license sales after cold-calling people’s bosses or breaking builds but they won’t thank you for it. |
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| ▲ | immibis 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's the only rational way for a company to behave. Nonetheless you said it was free for 10 years. Many entire companies started and died within 10 years and had the benefit of the free registry the entire time. If you avoid doing something because it might change 10 years later, you'll never get anything done. | |
| ▲ | seemaze 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Feels like they're trying to put the cat back in the bag and recoup a fraction of the exodus from the registry thing. | |
| ▲ | pploug 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Projects are not charged for hub usage | |
| ▲ | skyline879 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | When was this? | | |
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| ▲ | dudeWithAMood 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I am a little confused because I got a 401 when I tried to pull an image from there. Do I need a login or something? For a free image it sure doesn't feel that way. |
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| ▲ | yjftsjthsd-h 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > No reason not to use them. There's an excellent reason: They're login gated, which is at best unnecessary friction. Took me straight from "oh, let me try it" to "nope, not gonna bother". |
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| ▲ | nathanchou 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| CEO of VulnFree here. Docker is just grasping at straws. Chainguard is worth more than Docker. This is just a marketing plot (and it's clearly working given the number of devs messaging me). |
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| ▲ | darkwater 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This smells like LLM generated |
