Docker Hub Is Down

https://www.dockerstatus.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f000031/68d47a2f93c09e05486d93a9

97•cipherself•1h ago

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switz•1h ago

I didn't even really realize it was a SPOF in my deploy chain. I figured at least most of it would be cached locally. Nope, can't deploy.

I don't work on mission-critical software (nor do I have anyone to answer to) so it's not the end of the world, but has me wondering what my alternate deployment routes are. Is there a mirror registry with all the same basic images? (node/alpine)

I suppose the fact that I didn't notice before says wonderful things about its reliability.

tom1337•1h ago

I guess the best way would be to have a self-hosted pull-through registry with a cache. This way you'd have all required images ready even when dockerhub is offline.

Unfortunately that does not help in an outage because you cannot fill the cache now.

pebble•1h ago

This is the way tho this can lead to fun moments like I was just setting up a new cluster and couldn't figure out why I was having problems pulling images when the other clusters were pulling just fine.

Took me a while to think of checking the docker hub status page.

cipherself•1h ago

In the case where you still have an image locally, trying to build will fail with an error complaining about not being able to load metadata for the image because a HEAD request failed. So, the real question is, why isn't there a way to disable the HEAD request for loading metadata for images? Perhaps there's a way and I don't know it.

switz•1h ago

Yeah, this is the actual error that I'm running into. Metadata pages are returning 401 and bailing out of the build.

tln•1h ago

You might still have it on your dev box or build box

  docker image ls
  docker tag name/name:version your.registry/here/name/name:version
  docker push your.registry/here/name/name:version

tln•51m ago

Per sibling comment, public.ecr.aws/docker/library/.... works even better

akshayKMR•32m ago

This saved me. I was able to push image from one of my nodes. Thank you.

kam•1h ago

> Is there a mirror registry with all the same basic images?

https://gallery.ecr.aws/

XCSme•37m ago

It's a bit stupid that I can't restart (on Coolify) my container, because pulling the image fails, even though I am already running it, so I do have the image, I just need to restart the Node.js process...

XCSme•31m ago

Nevermind, I used the terminal, docker ps to find the container and docker restart <container_id>, without going through Coolify.

philip1209•1h ago

Development environment won't boot. Guess I'll go home early.

juan16•1h ago

have same problem, visiting https://hub.docker.com/_/node return error

gnabgib•1h ago

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366942

cipherself•1h ago

I’ll admit I haven’t checked before posting, perhaps an admin can merge both submissions and change the URL on the one you linked to the one in this submission.

XCSme•1h ago

Yup, my Coolify deployments were failing and I didn't know why : https://softuts.com/docker-hub-is-down/

Also, isn't it weird that it takes so long to fix given the magnitude of the issue? Already down for 3 hours.

taberiand•1h ago

So that's why. This gave me the kick I needed to finally switch over the remaining builds to the pull-through cache.

esafak•18m ago

Which one are you using?

miller_joe•1h ago

I was hoping google cloud artifact registry pull-thru caching would help. Alas, it does not.

I can see an image tag available in the cache in my project on cloud.google.com, but after attempting to pull from the cache (and failing) the image is deleted from GAR :(

qianli_cs•50m ago

I think it was likely caused by the cache trying to compare the tag with Docker Hub: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/image-library/mirror/#wha...

> "When a pull is attempted with a tag, the Registry checks the remote to ensure if it has the latest version of the requested content. Otherwise, it fetches and caches the latest content."

So if the authentication service is down, it might also affect the caching service.

breatheoften•43m ago

In our ci setting up the docker buildx driver to use the artifact registry pull through cache involves (apparently) an auth transaction to dockerhub which fails out

rshep•31m ago

I’m able to pull by the digest, even images that are now missing a tag.

Poomba•1h ago

Is there a good alternative for DockerHub these days? Besides azure CR

akerl_•55m ago

Basically all my Docker images were being built from Github repos anyways, so I just switched to Github's container registry.

cyberax•40m ago

GHCR authentication is just broken. They still require the deprecated personal access tokens.

akerl_•31m ago

I was publishing public containers on Docker Hub, and I'm publishing public containers on GHCR.

cyberax•40m ago

Quay.io is nice (but you have to memorize the spelling of its name)

viraptor•13m ago

Or start a pronunciation revolution and say "kway". It's all made up anyway ;-)

frabonacci•55m ago

Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366942

momeabed•42m ago

Also GCP K8S have an partial outage! was this vibe coded release... insane...

wolttam•40m ago

All I really need is for Debian to have their own OCI image registry I can pull from. :)

lambda•2m ago

Not Debian itself, but Red Hat's registry has them: https://quay.io/organization/lib

manasdas•36m ago

Therefore keep a local registry mirror. You will get it from local cache all the time.

hexagonsun•20m ago

explains why my watchtower container was exploding

Cameri•15m ago

same

esafak•19m ago

What's the easiest way to cache registries like docker, pypi, and npm these days?

viraptor•15m ago

You pull the images you want to use, preferably with some automated process, then push them to your own repo. And anyways use your own repo when pulling for dev/production. It saves you from images disappearing as well.

paulddraper•11m ago

What do you like using for your own repo? Artifactory? Something else?

__turbobrew__•8m ago

Note, artifactory SaaS had downtime today as well.

lambda•8m ago

The images I use the most, we pull and push to our own internal registry, so we have full control.

There are still some we pull from Docker Hub, especially in the build process of our own images.

To work around that, on AWS, you can prefix the image with public.ecr.aws/docker/library/ for example public.ecr.aws/docker/library/python:3.12 and it will pull from AWS's mirror of Docker Hub.

thomasfromcdnjs•16m ago

Was already struggling to do any work today and now my builds aren't working.

https://xkcd.com/303/

thehamkercat•9m ago

I had some images in cache, but not all of them, and pull is failing

for example, i have redis:7.2-alpine in cache, but not golang:1.24.5-alpine

I needed the golang image to start my dev-backend

so i replaced FROM golang:1.24.5-alpine with FROM redis:7.2-alpine, and manually installed golang with apk in the redis container :)

__turbobrew__•13m ago

Anyone have recommendations for an image cache? Native kubernetes a plus.

What would be really nice is a system with mutating admission webhooks for pods which kicks off a job to mirror the image to a local registry and then replaces the image reference with the mirrored location.

andrewstuart2•37s ago

CNCF has harbor, which I use at home and have deployed in a few clusters at work, and it works well as a pull through cache.

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