Official-images Alternatives

official-images reviews and mentions

• Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
  21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2024

  Ubuntu now has snapshot.ubuntu.com, see https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-snapshots-on-azure-ensuring-p...

  Related discussion about reproducible builds by the Docker people: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/issues/160...

• Starter for Jakarta EE staged (beta)
  2 projects | /r/java | 29 Mar 2023
• How to own your own Docker Registry address
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2023

  > In their updated policy, it appears they now won't remove any existing images, but projects who don't pay up will not be able to publish any new images

  This is not correct. It's the "organization" features are going away. That is the feature which lets you create teams, add other users to those teams, and grant teams access to push images and access private repositories. Multiple maintainers can still collaborate on publishing new images through use of access tokens which grant access to publish those images. It's kind of a hack, but it works. You would typically use these access tokens with automated CI tools anyway. This will require converting the organization account to a personal user (non-org) account. (Interesting note/disclosure: I was the engineer who first implemented the feature of converting a personal user account into an organization account some time around 2014/2015, but I no longer work there.)

  For open source projects which are not part of the Docker Official Images (the "library" images [1]), they announced that such projects can apply to the Docker-Sponsored Open Source Program [2].

  I would also heed the warning from the author of this article:

  > Self-hosting a registry is not free, and it's more work than it sounds: it's a proper piece of infrastructure, and comes with all the obligations that implies, from monitoring to promptly applying security updates to load & disk-space management. Nobody (let alone tiny projects like these) wants this job.

  Having most container images hosted by a handful of centralized registries has its problems, as noted, but so does an alternative scenario where multiple projects which decided to go self-hosted eventually lack the resources to continue doing so for their legacy users. Though, I suppose the nice thing about container images is that you can always pull and push them somewhere else to keep around indefinitely.

  [1] https://hub.docker.com/u/library

• Docker's deleting Open Source images and here's what you need to know
  23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2023

  Indeed. While I do maintain two of them, that maintenance is effectively equivalent to being an open source maintainer or open source contributor. I do not have any non-public knowledge about the Docker Official Images program. My interaction with the Docker Official Images program can be summed up as “my PRs to docker-library/official-images” (https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pulls/TimW...) and the #docker-library IRC channel on Libera.Chat.

• Oracle per-employee Java pricing causes concern
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2023

  "AdoptOpenJDK up until now was producing OpenJDK binaries with both Hotspot and OpenJ9 VM's. With Adopt's move to Eclipse, legal restrictions prevent the new Eclipse Adoptium group from producing/releasing OpenJ9 based binaries. As a result, IBM will be producing OpenJ9 based binaries in 2 flavours, Open and Certified, both under the family name IBM Semeru Runtimes. Essentially the same binaries, released under different licenses."

  Source: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/10666...

• PHP 8.2.0 has been released!
  2 projects | /r/PHP | 8 Dec 2022

  They should be available soon, the corresponding PR at docker-library/official-images has already been merged: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/13693

• Docker series (Part 8): Images from Docker Hub
  2 projects | dev.to | 9 Jun 2022

  Official image lists are added here: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/tree/master/library

• GCC 12.1 Released
  2 projects | /r/programming | 6 May 2022

  Looks like this PR will release the official version to the hub: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/12382

• There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2021

  It doesn't block it, it requires recompiling musl.

  https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/10779...

  This is also a response to inclusion of this broken mess into official docker images, I think alpine putting their foot down is entirely justified here.

• Multi-CPU architecture container images. How to build and push them on Docker Hub (or any other registry)
  2 projects | dev.to | 2 Jun 2021

  CAUTION! To build container images with multi-CPU architecture support, you need to use parent image which supports multiple CPU architectures. Most of the official images on Docker Hub provide a variety of architectures. For example, the openjdk image variants (which we're going to use later) support arm64v8 and amd64.

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