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Publish images on Github as alternative to Docker Hub #39
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It's possible to publish Docker images through Github, too: https://github.com/pgRouting/docker-pgrouting/packages?package_type=Docker
This could be an alternative to Docker Hub and doing this in an automated way should not cause much extra effort.
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[-]Publish images on Github as well[/-][+]Publish images on Github as alternative to Docker Hub[/+]dkastl commentedon Oct 12, 2020
Seems like there will be soon a change to "GitHub Container Registry", so probably better to wait a bit: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/packages/getting-started-with-github-container-registry/migrating-to-github-container-registry-for-docker-images
cayetanobv commentedon Oct 15, 2020
Very interesting @dkastl , thanks. I'm reading new doc in Github about billing in the container's registry:
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/packages/getting-started-with-github-container-registry/migrating-to-github-container-registry-for-docker-images#billing-changes
The most important info about how billing works is here:
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/setting-up-and-managing-billing-and-payments-on-github/about-billing-for-github-packages#about-billing-for-github-packages
What do you think?
dkastl commentedon Oct 17, 2020
Thanks for sharing the information. I must admit that I also visited those billing pages after creating this issue, and the limits for the free publishing seem to be rather low. I'm not sure how much pgRouting would require, but 500MB storage and 1GB data transfer is not much.
So I would suggest to not spend time with it. Maybe someday the quota will increase to a reasonable amount for Open Source projects like pgRouting.
dkastl commentedon Oct 29, 2020
Seems like Docker Hub is also working on limits, but so far the rate limits are for pulling images only: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hub-image-retention-policy-delayed-and-subscription-updates/
cayetanobv commentedon Oct 29, 2020
I've seen this information this week and you are right. It's only affecting image pull rates.
sanak commentedon Mar 3, 2025
From the latest document, it seems to be free for public repository packages.
https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your-products/managing-billing-for-github-packages/about-billing-for-github-packages#about-billing-for-github-packages
To support GHCR, GDAL repository way seems to be helpful.
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pkgs/container/gdal
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.10.2/docker/util.sh#L370-L387