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Starting 4/1 Unauthed Docker Hub Pulls will be limited to 10 per hour

by sunils34 on 3/28/25, 2:14 PM with 3 comments

• by sunils34 on 3/28/25, 2:14 PM

  Hi all, I figured this is pretty critical to share out. Docker recently announced in February that starting April 1st unauthenticated Docker Pulls from the Docker Hub registry will be limited to 10 per hour. This is a pretty significant breaking change, especially for those that run Kubernetes in production.

  Many Kubernetes clusters may host open source software with images pulled from docker hub without credentials, thus by default the pulls are unauthenticated. And many of these clusters run behind a NAT.

  I was very surprised to see this warning from Digital Ocean today and that there's only a 3 day lead time to address this. Surfacing for visibility in case anyone else doesn't regularly follow Docker Hub updates.