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Nice to see the registry is free for public images, but does anyone know where I can see pricing for private images? Is it still the same as the packages pricing[1], because 2 gigs seems incredibly low storage space when it comes to Docker images, right?

To me, the price to beat is the $0.04-$0.20 a month I pay for Google Container Registry (price depending on whether I remember to go back and delete older images or not). I'm guessing it's not going to get to that level of commodity priced, but I don't see this product being competitive without giving a heck of a lot more space for cheaper.

[1] https://github.com/features/packages#pricing

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> Nice to see the registry is free for public images, but does anyone know where I can see pricing for private images?

This might be a good time to remind that GitLab offers free container registries for all projects for a few years now.

Good callout. The GitLab.com registry has a "soft cap" of 10 GB, which seems like plenty of room for most projects, as long as you don't require a long history.

Thanks for mentioning us, if someone if looking for the docs they are on https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/container_registry/

I use it with gitlab auto devops and the whole experience with my k8s cluster on DO is super nice. I very much recommend trying out gitlab.

That’s the cap for the entire repo from what I can tell, and is the equivalent of $2.50/mo from Github.

Not really a meaningful difference if I’m reading that correctly.

To me it means that GitLab offers a simpler solution that does not require invoices and having to track CCs around.

If we add GitLab's superb CICD, which runs circles around the mess that GitHub Actions is, then it's thumbs up all around.

We'll be revising our free storage model in the future to accommodate more open source usage. There are a lot of base layer images people use that are built on GitHub and should be freely available. Those base images should become part of the public space and you only pay for private storage built on top.

This is good to hear, and makes sense to me. I'll also admit that, now that I've thought it over, I'm doing a bit of apples-to-oranges comparison, given the $4/mo is not just "for 2 gigs of storage," since it also includes Actions minutes and I think a few other bonus features (private wikis?). At that point, it's more fair to compare it to what e.g. GitLab offers, than what you'd get from Azure Container Registry or similar.

I'm not sure the Container Registry on its own will necessarily be attractive to people just looking for commodity-priced container storage, but GH Actions + Container Registry does make for a pretty compelling CI/CD story, I have to admit.

It seems like it will be the same as packages:

> Container Registry is free for private images during the beta, and as part of GitHub Packages will follow the same pricing model when generally available.

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