As you may have seen, Docker Hub made a dramatic shift in policy this week, and effectively gave a 30 day eviction notice to almost all community-run images.
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To work out whether this'll work, we need to do some digging into Docker's traffic directly.
First, let's take a look at what a Docker pull really does under the hood.
When you run docker pull, or do anything else with Docker (e.g. building an image) that triggers an image pull en route, there are a few requests that have to happen to download the full image you're looking for.
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Conveniently, in the traffic above we can see that there are already redirects in place, and working! That means that all Docker clients must support redirects at least for /blobs/ requests (otherwise Docker Hub would be unusable) and so probably support them for all requests.
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Once that's in place, you're all good. In my case, I've deployed this as docker.httptoolkit.tech, so you can now pull my Docker images from that hostname, even though they're currently still hosted on Docker Hub, like so:
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