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Here's an even better proposal - lets try immeasurably hard to stop re-inventing words and maybe use words that people would generally understand without an accompanying definition. Where, for instance, software actually means software and tech actually means technology. :p

awesome. nicely done. noticed your launch on product hunt and waiting to see how this evolves.

Culture isn't a great answer to throw around when people are asking hard questions about a program that is the financial backbone of a company. In fact its downright snooty to presume that allegations like this stem from folks who have experienced a different corporate culture. People generally get to know what a company's culture really is like from the folks who leave that company. And there are tons of those folks from Google. The point is, whether you appreciate Google's internal culture of candour or not or its lack of silos, that's just not the way to respond to allegations regarding the way Google makes serious profits.

You're right. We received more than a few brickbats for this since yesterday. So we changed the github oauth request scope. As it stands now, the data we request is only the user scope which includes the user's private email address (https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes). We'll add additional scope requests if a user elects to use our upcoming github build feature.

Quay.io is a great product and if you're happy with it we don't recommend moving to Gandalf.io.

Gandalf.io went live yesterday and still very much in early beta and we're still improving the functionality and experience. The reason we decided to set up Gandalf was because we think this is a huge potential market with space for at least 3-4 players. We also think docker containerisation is more than just enterprise devops preserve and want to lower the threshold for startups and individual developers to get started.

Gandalf.io has an auth layer wrapped around the standard docker registry and you can access it via SSL using the docker api (this includes the docker CLI). We're still examining ways in which we can strengthen the security of the system and are open to suggestions and insights.

Github based builds are in the upcoming release slated for next week. Sign up for the free plan and you'll be notified by email when that happens.

We love you guys. in fact, we didn't realize you guys were the competition till we were in alpha :)

I do agree that's something we might have to change if the signups slow down. And we need to do a cost-benefit on that perhaps. At the moment, folks are signing up though :)

Thank you! yes, sometimes we misunderstand the intent of a comment. and sometimes we don't :)

Our goal is to integrate your docker workflow very tightly with github. The user will be able to decide which features to switch on and off and whether to write or only read! Obviously we'd rather announce these features when they're ready and we'd rather collect the data upfront so we don't have to prompt the user once again when they sign in.

agreed. next stop - trusted builds. I'll announce you'll sign up?

We will. But we won't be offering an enterprise plan while we're in beta :)

Sure we're sending a signal that we're not ready for enterprise folks. I can be candid in saying that we'd rather be the digital ocean of dockers than an AWS. at this point :p

disappointed. not even a single free docker?

I assure you we've debated this a lot before putting out that pricing. There is a way to do this and do this well. For us pricing docker hosting competitively is the best way to do it, especially for a startup ecosystem that is only just beginning to wake up to the potential of docker-based testing and deployment.

Yikes. less said the better. more later. :)

Sharing private containers among team members, especially when remote working. That's the best use case.

Storing your own private containers for access from multiple locations or machines.

Auto-deploying containers using the standard docker api

We're currently offering the service without constraints - its still a beta offering and we could add limits later on. We're assuming you'll build a docker within reasonable limits - say 3-4GB max.

FAQ page coming up soon.

btw, for support questions - we're #gandalfio on freenode

for one you can get started with a private repo without paying for it. You can securely share it with your entire team and not pay one cent, and you can do that just by creating an account on gandalf.io.

Secondly, for those who're starting out using dockers, a four docker plan is optimal because most folks use a combination of containers inheriting from public and private repos. So you can pay $4 per month for 4 repos using gandalf.io whereas you have to pay a minimum of $7 per month for docker.io's service.

Thirdly, this is just the beginning and we're working on a roadmap of features, some of which docker.io might not provide.

Fourth - support is important when using a service, and support can have a specific flavour when using a startup offering. try gandalf.io to understand the flavor :) !

I'd also add that closed and open source often feed into each other in a kind of symbiotic relationship. Sounds controversial to the libertarians and hard-core open source folks but that's the way it usually plays out.

:D thank you.

hmmm. I was a lawyer in a previous avatar. I think we're ok.

Not really - much like private repos on github don't go against the spirit of github's public repos. The kind folks at Docker, Inc. the company behind this fantastic technology, themselves recently announced a commercial private registry service too. They kinda beat us to it ;)

Heh. yeah. its worked for us so far internally. we're scratching our own itch. and it certainly could use a lot of polish. but we think our core focus on docker collab could help us fine tune it and provide a fantastic service with all the support devs need.

And they did!

And they're back in business :)

It did sound like I was criticising Github but that wasn't what I intended. Github actually came out looking good because like Google, its done a good job posting a copy of all takedown notices. In fact, looks like Github put all the repos back online again!!

Fantastic news :)