Docker pull so slow [closed]

Question

I had an experience on 2021.09.07: a freshly created docker image is downloaded so slow via docker pull (from hub.docker.com)... The last layer was the obstacle – it took 40-50 minutes to be finished. What can be the reason?

e249e58386a8: Downloading [===> ] 83.73MB/303.3MB

Answer 1

Docker limits the speeds and amounts of pull requests you can do with a free account. After hitting the limit you need to wait until they reset it. There are several alternative container registries to Docker Hub that you can use instead and that don't suffer so much of the described problem. For example:

• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR): A fully-managed Docker container registry provided by AWS that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

• Google Container Registry (GCR): A secure and private registry for Docker container images on Google Cloud Platform.