Offering image hardening to custom images looks like a reasonable way for Docker to have a source of sustained income. Regulated industries like banks, insurers, or governmental agencies are likely interested.
Bait and switch once the adoption happens has become way too common in the industry.
> Is Docker sunsetting the Free Team plan?
> No. Docker communicated its intent to sunset the Docker Free Team plan on March 14, 2023, but this decision was reversed on March 24, 2023.
Not a problem for casual users but even a small team like mine, a dozen people with around a dozen public images, can hit the pull limit deploying a dozen landscapes a day. We just cache all the public images ourselves and avoid it.
https://www.docker.com/blog/revisiting-docker-hub-policies-p...
It's what the people who created OG Docker are building now
There's an excellent reason: They're login gated, which is at best unnecessary friction. Took me straight from "oh, let me try it" to "nope, not gonna bother".
Docker is just grasping at straws. Chainguard is worth more than Docker. This is just a marketing plot (and it's clearly working given the number of devs messaging me).