Make your software experts use their software skills to host a mirror.

When will people pay their engineers to do actual engineering, instead of as a proxy for SaaS spending? Please, dear God, just hire one guy to run a mirror. Then, every time Docker et al turn the screws, we don't have to have these threads.

You can host OCI images anywhere. Unfortunately, this breaks all of the tutorials people use to develop software.

Crazy idea: stop using Docker.

Never do by choice, distribution repos are good enough for me.

The bigger problem is when projects only officially ship as docker images for some banal reason.

> bloated container runtime

As opposed to what? SystemD?

I think what he's probably thinking of is more like using a virtualenv for python. Or bundler for ruby.

Yeah and installing it as a systemd service, which uses basically as much namespacing/cgroup/supervision/mounts as any other container runtime.

Who knew that cramming 6 GB of Debian dependencies over the wire to run a Python script was a terrible idea? Who could have seen this coming? Maybe people wouldn't think bandwidth grows on trees if literally everyone in Silicon Valley hadn't developed software that way for the last 15 years.

But idk maybe Docker shouldn't have pulled a bait-and-switch, which is also classical known as a "dick move".

Literally every company offering a free service pulls a bait-and-switch. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me three dozen times... you can't get fooled again. This was not unexpected. This was completely predictable from the moment anyone in the team asked "what does this command do?" and the answer was "it downloads something from Docker Hub"