JUjustsomehnguy·Oct 23, 2026
> Docker was famously bad at commercializing anything
That's because there was never a proper sysadmin on your team to slap some sense in your decisions.
You've got too opinionated[0], too tied on yourself[1] monster which required too much resources what you can handle alone.
And your market is not the developers but the companies where whose developers have a daytime jobs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34377674
BTW just for giggles opened hub.docker.com with Network Tools opened:
368 requests, 9.62MB, Finish: 4.50s.
For a thing which should be a static cached copy with everything bundled. Sure, it's a progress from the previous iterations when it could hang for 30 seconds before actually loading... but this is still ridiculous.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739153
[1] Eg: the syntax to point the image to a specific r
Read the rest
egistry is something... bad. So bad I just abandoned running my own registry, it wasn't worth it.
PS there is still (AFAIK) no support for a transaction-like image building in Compose. So instead of something like this:
TRANSACTION START
RUNBATCH set -eux
# TODO find a better userspace architecture detection method than querying the kernel
arch="$(uname -m)"
case "$arch" in \
aarch64) gosuArch='arm64' ;
x86_64) gosuArch='amd64' ;
*) echo >&2 "error: unsupported architecture: '$arch'"; exit 1 ;
esac
curl -fL -o /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$gosuArch.asc"
curl -fL -o /usr/local/bin/gosu "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$gosuArch"
export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"
gpg --batch --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys B42F6819007F00F88E364FD4036A9C25BF357DD4
gpg --batch --verify /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc /usr/local/bin/gosu
rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gosu
gosu --version
gosu nobody true
TRANSACTION END
people need to write these one-liner abominations:
RUN set -eux; \
# TODO find a better userspace architecture detection method than querying the kernel
arch="$(uname -m)"; \
case "$arch" in \
aarch64) gosuArch='arm64' ;; \
x86_64) gosuArch='amd64' ;; \
*) echo >&2 "error: unsupported architecture: '$arch'"; exit 1 ;; \
esac; \
curl -fL -o /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$gosuArch.asc"; \
curl -fL -o /usr/local/bin/gosu "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$gosuArch"; \
export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
gpg --batch --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys B42F6819007F00F88E364FD4036A9C25BF357DD4; \
gpg --batch --verify /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc /usr/local/bin/gosu; \
rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc; \
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gosu; \
gosu --version; \
gosu nobody true
EDIT: to add on [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35312087