Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds

Docker, the company, is such a sad story. They have such an impactful technology but completely failed to monetize it and lost multiple revenue streams to competitors. Shows how hard "open source companies" are. Others OSS companies have similar problems. It would be nice to find economic models where impact is correlated with revenue.

cryptocurrencies are ruining hardware availability (both GPU and now storage devices), the environment and now free cloud services. When are we gonna admit it?<p>EDIT: typo

Sorry, but not really surprised to see this go (for free accounts).<p>TBH I&#x27;m surprised that they managed to keep this going as long as they have. Giving away free compute is a tricky thing to make financially viable.

Too bad. IMO the big benefit of automated builds was that Docker Hub was linked the source repository and showed the original Dockerfile, so that one was able to more easily verify what exactly a Docker image contains (provided one trusts Docker to correctly build these automated builds).

If this means a better experience for paying customers, I&#x27;m all for it. I have no problem with companies charging for their services.

This seems reasonable to me as a free user. I thought it was rad that I got free compute from dockerhub, but CPU cycles aren&#x27;t free.

Do folks here have ideas of what will become the best place to host public Docker container images? Between this and the earlier changes to rate limit pulls, Docker Hub no longer seems like the ideal venue for reputable public images.<p>Should we look into implementing our own registry with AWS ECR or similar?

Sad. I was hoping for multi-arch support (for Free tier, I don&#x27;t make money out of my opensource image), and got this instead.<p>I wish the company could eventually found a way to make more money. Kubernetes too heavy to run, while Docker Swarm is rather reasonable. I guess there is a market gap?(???)

Maybe it is possible to detect the kind of activity or identify processes that are written to mine crypto? Then abort those ones.<p>I&#x27;m thinking of behavior analysis, such as the one some network firewalls do... not sure if that&#x27;s even feasible at the process level, though.

I think Docker (the company) just admitted defeat to GitHub. Wow. It&#x27;s amazing how they blew such an incredible lead over the last decade.

Normally, I would take this at face value. But from the company that just started charging users to allow them to skip upgrades, it feels like more nickel and dime tactics to me.