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by Poomba 264 days ago
Is there a good alternative for DockerHub these days? Besides azure CR
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We use a https://container-registry.com, which is a clean version of the open source Harbor registry software (https://goharbor.io/) from one of the maintainers. It works well and reliable for years now and has no vendor-lock-in thanks to Harbor.
Basically all my Docker images were being built from Github repos anyways, so I just switched to Github's container registry.
GHCR authentication is just broken. They still require the deprecated personal access tokens.
I was publishing public containers on Docker Hub, and I'm publishing public containers on GHCR.
Quay.io is nice (but you have to memorize the spelling of its name)
Or start a pronunciation revolution and say "kway". It's all made up anyway ;-)
It _is_ pronounced "kway", and it _is_ a real word: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay !
It's pronounced keɪ (from your link - The spelling quay, first appearing in the sixteenth century, follows modern French. As noted by the Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, the expected outcome of Middle English keye would be /keɪ/ in Modern English). Or key (with modern spelling).
We actually originally pronounced it as "kway" (the American pronunciation we had heard) but then had a saying we'd tell customers (when asked) of "pronounce it however you please, so long as you're happy using it!" :)

Source: I co-founded Quay.io

A tongue twister we accidentally invented: "quick Quay queue counter" :)

So far, spelling has been our worst issue with Quay!

I know quay is a real word - it's not normally pronounced like "kway" but like "key". But only because enough people agree on that - that's what I mean by made up. The rules are just a majority agreement for both meaning and pronunciation.
My french speaking partner recently informed me the quay (pronounced key) meant something like ‘dock’ when we were discussing the Florida Keys, and suddenly everything fell into place!
Pronounced "key". The main ferry dock in Sydney is called Circular Quay.
The third pronunciation in the link is “kway”