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We Need to Talk About Docker Hub

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128 points darthShadow | 2 comments | 24 Jan 25 11:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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concerndc1tizen ◴[24 Jan 25 12:20 UTC] No.42812414[source]▶
If you don't like it, then why don't you use a different provider?

If you want free stuff, is your strategy to smear them into giving you more free stuff?

Storage, compute, and traffic, isn't free. You've been the beneficiary of charity for years.

Yes, the open source community has relied on this implicit charity as a parasite, by exploiting whatever free services they could. And now we're paying the price, as you say, by having DockerHub as the default provider.

My suggestion is therefore that we need independent solutions, that are fully funded as a charity, and stop relying on freemium services from corporations that fundamentally don't care about the public good.

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robertlagrant ◴[24 Jan 25 12:40 UTC] No.42812541[source]▶
> My suggestion is therefore that we need independent solutions, that are fully funded as a charity, and stop relying on freemium services from corporations that fundamentally don't care about the public good.

We had that already, but none of them invented Docker.

> If you want free stuff, is your strategy to smear them into giving you more free stuff?

They seem happy to pay; they were complaining (validly) about the process of renewing DSOS.

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8organicbits ◴[24 Jan 25 12:51 UTC] No.42812610[source]▶
> none of them invented Docker

I think that depends on what you mean by docker. Lots of similar things existed before, just less formalized and less centralized.

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1. robertlagrant ◴[24 Jan 25 13:23 UTC] No.42812793[source]▶
But there's a reason why Docker was so successful - a single file that could define a deployment and tooling to build it into a runnable artefact was incredibly useful. From the future tech useful.

If you can name these other similar solutions created by charities I can probably me more specific.

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2. 8organicbits ◴[25 Jan 25 15:17 UTC] No.42822096[source]▶
I think of Docker as a well executed and well-timed formalization of existing tools. It put a name to a collection of engineering concepts. This is why people can build Docker in N lines of shell script. Jails existed in the late 90s. IaC had multiple options before Docker.