The Docker Hub is going to drastically decrease the rate limits for free accounts on April first. Are you ready for those changes? Here’s a high level overview of the rate limit changes we’re about to have:
| Account type | Old rate limit | New rate limit (April 1st) |
|---|---|---|
| Free, authenticated | 200 image pulls per hour | 100 image pulls per hour |
| Free, unauthenticated | 100 image pulls per hour | 10 image pulls per hour (per IPv4 address or IPv6 /64 subnet) |
What if you could easily cache images so these rate limits don’t impact your workloads? Today I’m going to show you how you can set up your own pull-through cache of the docker hub so that your workloads only have to download images once.