Stop Using Docker

Manpreet Singh
2 min readMar 17, 2023

Welcome back! Docker is a very popular tool that allows us to containerize our software, however, the last year or so has been a quite controversial time for Docker. In my opinion, this kind of started with Docker beginning to charge for certain features, but it looks like there are a few more issues at hand as well. A few days ago, a user posted the following article:

Within the article, the user states that Docker is deleting open source organizations, they go on to state that Docker sent out an email urging organizations to upgrade to the paid team plan, if they don’t, their account, including all of their images, could be deleted!

Interestingly enough, Docker has actually apologized for this situation, they stated that they “did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker free teams”:

Within their article, they stated that they apologized for how they communicated this change, they have now communicated that they won’t be…

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Manpreet Singh
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