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Docker Raises Prices Up to 80 Percent | ServeTheHome (www.servethehome.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Folks, the docker runtime is open source, and not even the only one of its kind. They won't charge for that. If they tried to make it closed source, everyone would just laugh and switch to one of several completely free alternatives. They charge for hosting images, build time on their build servers, and various "premium" developer tools you don't need. In fact, you need none of this, you can do all of it yourself on whatever hardware you deem to be good enough. There are also many other hosted alternatives out there.

Docker thinks they have a monopoly, for some reason. If you use the technology, you are probably already aware that they don't.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

If they tried to close source it, someone would just fork it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does that include running Windows containers? It seems like the alternatives don't support those.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does anybody actually use that feature though?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

There are always lost sheep in the fields.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Windows container runtime is free as well, simply install the docker runtime from chocolatey or winget along with the Windows Containers and Hyper-V windows features. This is what we do on some build machines for CI.

Theres no reason to use desktop other than "ease of use"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are some reasons. Networking can get messed up, so Docker Desktop "fixed that" for you, but the dirty secret is it's basically a Linux VM with Docker CE and some convenience network routes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Youre talking about Linux containers on Windows, I think commenter above was referring to windows containers on Windows, which is its own special hell for lucky folks like me.

Otherwise I totally agree. Ive done both setups without docker desktop.