Docker is sunsetting Free Team organizations

Their FAQ: https://web.docker.com/rs/790-SSB-375/images/privatereposfaq...

We run a CNCF Harbor-based container registry service (https://container-registry.com/), happy to help the project and offer a registry free of charge. Harbor has the valuable option that allows you to replicate images to other registries. So, you push images to a central place and from there they are automatically replicated to ghcr, gcr, ecr, Docker Hub and so on.

Happy to show and explain the various options and possibilities to the community here.

Does that mean someone else can grab your organization name that now will be freed up?

Feels like extortion to me, pay $300/year or we'll give your name to someone else who wants it.

Does it mean that each free organization and its repositories will be removed or only their private repositories? This is not clear for me.

I'm in the same boat. I applied for their Open Source program (https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/application/) and am hoping this will allow me to retain my organization.

This really sucks for end users.

I was accepted into the program.

> So it means that my open-source project docker images now can either be removed from github, or I have to pay.

What does GitHub have to do with it? And it says “you will maintain access to any images in your public repositories”.

That quote is taken quite out of context. I am worried too. Here's the full quote:

> If you own a legacy Free Team organization, access to paid features — including private repositories — will be suspended on April 14, 2023 (11:59 pm UTC). Upgrade your subscription before April 14, 2023 to continue accessing your organization.

> If you don’t upgrade to a paid subscription, Docker will retain your organization data for 30 days, after which it will be subject to deletion. During that time, you will maintain access to any images in your public repositories, though rate limitations will apply.

I have a "Free Team" but no private repositories on it. Totally unclear about what will happen.

The wording definitely implies that both free and paid content will be deleted.

Unfortunately if this is true -- and the organization is then up for grabs from a paid customer -- then I'm afraid it will open end users up to supply chain attacks

It was a typo, sorry, meant docker hub. But:

> If you don’t upgrade to a paid subscription, Docker will retain your organization data for 30 days, after which it will be subject to deletion. During that time, you will maintain access to any images in your public repositories, though rate limitations will apply.

Doesn't it mean that in 60 days all the public repos for the org will be wiped completely?

> So it means that my open-source project docker images now can either be removed from github

Not from GitHub :)

Sorry, a typo. Was quite nervous about my future opportunity to pay 300$/month for each open-source project I maintain.