Ask HN: What AWS Region does DockerHub run in?

1 points by nateleiby 9 years ago | 4 comments

We are looking to run two Docker registries, so that we're resilient to a DockerHub outage, like the one that happened during the great AWS S3 outage at the end of Feb.

One option would be to push our images to AWS ECR in addition to DockerHub, but we'd want to be sure that ECR is running a different region than DockerHub.

Thanks!

moondev 9 years ago |

Why not avoid dockerhub all together and just use ECR in two regions yourself?

nateleiby 9 years ago | |

Agreed - this is also a good option.

The main downsides I see are:

(1) It would affect people's Docker workflow

docker pull org/foo:tag

aws ecr get-login

docker pull some-aws-url/foo:tag

(2) We need to keep some history (to allow rolling back apps). So either need that in DockerHub or would need to move old images to ECR if we planned to fully nuke our DockerHub account.

QuinnyPig 9 years ago |

hub.docker.com is an alias for elb-default.us-east-1.aws.dckr.io.

That seems indicative...

nateleiby 9 years ago | |

Thanks! Should have dug there myself... Appreciated!