[mr__y]

This could also be solved by one person running a service that would crawl all public docker images and pull those that are close to expiration automatically every 6 months. At this moment I'm just curious how much resources would be needed for that

[SkyBelow]

If Docker cared enough to implement this policy, then why wouldn't they just modify it enough to delete images being protected in such a fashion?

[remram]

If you just need to send the request, not read the content in full, that can be done by one free-tier cloud VM.

[csunbird]

Reading the content still should not be a problem, since ingress is free for almost all cloud providers.

[mr__y]

> ingress is free for almost all cloud providers.

that would still pose a problem, not cost-wise, but you'd still need to download image after image. Will a single instance be capable of "downloading" all existing images every 6 months?

[ptspts]

Which hosting provider and product provides such free-tier cloud VMs?

[judge2020]

None of the big providers offer always-free VMs, but if you could just ping the registry endpoint, Lambda might be able to do it since you get 3.2 million seconds of compute "always free"[0]. Same for Google Cloud Run, although it's only 1GB egress a month[1], and Azure Functions[2].

0: https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.addi...

1: https://cloud.google.com/free#always-free-products_5

2: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/free-account-faq/

[remram]

Google Cloud offers 1 free always-on f1-micro VM.