[londons_explore]

> take the risk of a production outage in case we do too many pulls at once.

And the exact time you have some production emergency is probably the exact time you have a lot of containers being pulled as every node rolls forward/back rapidly...

And then docker.io rate limits you and suddenly your 10 minute outage becomes a 1 hour outage whilst someone plays a wild goose chase trying to track down every docker hub reference and point it at some local mirror/cache.

[wat10000]

I mean, don’t build your production environment to rely on some other company’s free tier, and then act surprised when they throttle high usage.

And yes, you’re still using the free tier even if you pay them, if your usage doesn’t have any connection to your paid account.

[prepend]

Companies that change their free tiers also change their paid tiers.

I just don’t build my environment to rely on unstable companies.

That’s sort of the comedy of second order effects as by reducing the amount of free stuff, I think Docker will end up reducing their paid customers.