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On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:51 AM Mark Goddard <mark at stackhpc.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Sept 2021 at 19:53, Radosław Piliszek
> <radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Kolla Operators,
> >
> > This is a heads-up message that Kolla Ansible will switch to using
> > Quay.io instead of Docker Hub by default. [1]
> > This was agreed at the last meeting unless we find obstacles not to do it.
> > But it seems it's even a better option for our users from China. [2]
> > Therefore the patch [1] has been proposed and will likely be merged
> > and probably backported to stable branches too.
> >
> > The main reasoning behind this change is that users suffer from Docker
> > Hub's limits. [3]
> > You may have noticed we started (a long time ago) publishing weekly,
> > instead of daily, to Docker Hub to mitigate the issue to some extent.
> > However, we had to switch our CI to Quay.io anyway to really be able
> > to work on the project rather than pray for luck with Docker Hub.
> > Quay.io has been great for us in general so we decided to make the
> > same switch for users.
> > Oh, and, by the way, we publish to Quay.io daily. ;-)
> >
> > If you use your own, local registry, then you are most likely
> > unaffected but make sure you set both `kolla_registry` AND
> > `kolla_namespace` as we have to override both.
>
> These should be `docker_registry` and `docker_namespace`.
>
> Otherwise, a nicely written email :)

Haha, thanks!
No idea how I made up their new names.

-yoctozepto

> >
> > Finally, kind reminder that operators of multinode and production
> > clusters are strongly advised to set up their own, local registries.
> > The docs show a simple minimal example of that. [4] (use option 1 from
> > the current page as possibility of option 2 will be gone with the
> > switch to quay.io).
> >
> > Thank you for reading up to this point!
> >
> > [1] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/kolla-ansible/+/808486
> > [2] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-September/024811.html
> > [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kolla-ansible/+bug/1942134
> > [4] https://docs.openstack.org/kolla-ansible/wallaby/user/multinode.html#deploy-a-registry
> >
> > -yoctozepto
> >