Makes sense. I don't get how Docker could offer so much free hosting in the first place. I know storage is cheap, but not this cheap. Eventually they're going to need to make these rules more stringent.
I also don't get why people put all their stuff on free services like this and expect it to work until eternity.
Come on, if you stop just half a second and think about it, you know it is a stupid idea and you know that one day you will have a problem. You really don't have to be a genius for that. Same goes for all these other kinds of "services" that are bundled together with things that used to be a one-time purchase, like cars, etc.
Oh, I now have a t.v. that can play Netflix and Youtube, but is otherwise not extendible. But what happens in ten years? T.v. still works fine, but Netflix has gone bust and this new video-service won't work. Too bad, gonna buy a new t.v then. I can get really mad about this stupid short-sightedness everybody has these days.
Enough billion dollar companies put their weight behind Docker that you'd think someone big is already running Docker hub pushing people to use their paid offerings, but that's not the case. Google created Kubernetes which is almost always used along with Docker, but they don't directly invest in Docker, Inc (at least, based on Crunchbase) and run their own container registry at gcr.io. The same goes for Amazon and Azure where their customers are increasingly moving to Docker instead of VMs, yet none of them directly back the company.
Because docker wired in their registry as the basis for everything by design. I think people had to fork docker to get one where you could create your own registry.
I think it's a good idea to NOT be pulling from someone else's image on the internet.
Do you save a copy of every web page you think might be useful later? I have a small archive of things I consider to be "at risk", but there are many things I enjoy that exist only on other people's servers now. I can't keep it all on my own machines forever, so the difficulty is guessing what will disappear and what won't.
No, I don't save every page that might be useful. But I do save some content if I notice that I keep referring to it multiple times.
However, that is just information and that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about tools and things that stop functioning because they need some free service on the internet to work. Yes, all my projects and tools can work without internet access. Sure, they might not get updated anymore, but they will keep functioning and I could continue living my live no matter what shuts down.
This even extends to non-free services. For instance, I don't use Spotify, even though it is a nice product and I love exploring new music. But if there was a change of service, Trump decides to block my country economically or something like that, and I am kicked off the platform, I would suddenly have no music anymore, even though I would have paid for it for years. So I buy cd's and vinyl instead and rip them to flac.
