I'm not the only one, you can read the reactions on Twitter (including many quote tweets) and on Hacker News. Having known Docker's new CTO personally for a very long time, I was surprised how out of touch the communication was. If you're using a Mac or a Windows machine, it's worth paying for in my opinion. When one of our OpenFaaS customers grumbled about paying for Docker Desktop, and wanted to spend several weeks trying to get Podman or Rancher Desktop working, I had to bite my tongue. I pay for a personal account, not because I publish images there anymore, but because I need to pull images like the base image for Go, or Node.js as part of my daily open source work. I'm not one of those people who think that all software and services should be free.
I have written dozens if not hundreds of articles and code samples on Docker as a technology. I was one of the biggest advocates around for Docker, speaking at their events, contributing to their projects and being a loyal member of their voluntary influencer program " Docker Captains". Docker's Open Source program is hostile and out of touch.Many open source projects including ones I maintain have published images to the Docker Hub for years.Paid team plans cost 420 USD per year (paid monthly).Free personal accounts have a a 6 month retention period. There was no change to personal accounts. The email contained a link to a tersely written PDF (since, silently edited) which was missing many important details which caused significant anxiety and additional work for open source maintainers.Īs far as we know, this only affects organisation accounts that are often used by open source communities. Yesterday, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an "organisation", telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. Coming up with a title that explains the full story here was difficult, so I'm going to try to explain quickly.
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