Docker is sunsetting Free Team organizations

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin)]

Path forward

On March 28th during our weekly meeting, we will select a registry.

Our images

• slicer-base image

  • Built daily & automatically on the metroplex Linux factory.
  • Currently hosted at https://hub.docker.com/r/slicer/slicer-base
  • The image is then used to build Slicer pull requests. See .github/actions/slicer-build/Dockerfile
  • Sources at https://github.com/Slicer/SlicerDocker

• slicer/slicer-notebook image

  • Manually built
  • Sources at https://github.com/Slicer/SlicerDocker
  • See Push slicer-notebook image to dockerhub · Issue #34 · Slicer/SlicerDocker · GitHub

• buildenv-qt<version>-<operatingsystem> (e.g buildenv-qt5-centos7)

  • Hosted at https://hub.docker.com/r/slicer/buildenv-qt5-centos7
  • Built manually on a Linux workstation (usually metroplex)
  • Sources at https://github.com/Slicer/SlicerBuildEnvironment
  • Depends on dockbuild-* images (e.g dockbuild/centos7-devtoolset7-gcc7)

• dockbuild images

  • Hosted at https://hub.docker.com/u/dockbuild
  • Automatically published leveraging CircleCI workflow
  • Can be published manually
  • Sources at https://github.com/dockbuild/dockbuild

• commontk/qt-static:4.8.6-centos-5.5

  • Hosted at https://hub.docker.com/r/commontk/qt-static/tags
  • Manually built and published
  • Used to build the CTKAppLauncher Linux binary package. See associated CircleCI workflow at .circleci/config.yml

• slicer/slicerexecutionmodel

  • Hosted at https://hub.docker.com/r/slicer/slicerexecutionmodel
  • Used for the testing of SlicerExecutionModel. See associated CircleCI workflow at .circleci/config.yml
  • Sources at https://github.com/Slicer/SlicerExecutionModel/tree/master/test

Alternatives

Reviewing the comments associated with docker/hub-feedback#2314, I identified few projects that transitioned.

GitHub packages registry

GitHub Packages is free for public repositories

See https://github.com/features/packages#pricing

Links:

• Documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-packages-registry/working-with-the-container-registry
• Portal: Built-in each GitHub organization
• Examples:
  • Packages · CLAMS Project · GitHub
    • https://github.com/clamsproject/.github/issues/1
  • Packages · QMK · GitHub
    • https://github.com/qmk/qmk_base_container/pull/39
  • Packages · Livebook · GitHub
    • https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/1792

quay

[…] offer unlimited storage and serving of public repositories.

See “Additional FAQs” at https://quay.io/plans/

Links:

• Documentation: https://docs.quay.io/
• Portal: https://quay.io/search
• Example(s):
  • https://quay.io/organization/pypa

container-registry

offering a […] discounted dedicated container to Open-Source projects […]

See this post

Links:

• Documentation: https://container-registry.com/docs/
• Portal: https://c8n.io/