# Convenience Images Update: Clarifying customer-facing vs. internal-use Docker Hub repos

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/convenience-images-update-clarifying-customer-facing-vs-internal-use-docker-hub-repos/27002>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** docker, convenience-images\
**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/convenience-images-update-clarifying-customer-facing-vs-internal-use-docker-hub-repos/27002 "2018-12-06T17:04:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![rose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/rose/32/7816_2.png) [@rose](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/rose)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/convenience-images-update-clarifying-customer-facing-vs-internal-use-docker-hub-repos/27002/1 "2018-12-06T17:04:34Z")

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After becoming aware that some customers were using images in their CircleCI projects from [hub.docker.com/r/circleci](https://hub.docker.com/r/circleci) that are not intended to be customer-facing, we have added descriptions to all public, non-customer-facing images in the `circleci` Docker Hub organization clarifying that these images are not part of our [convenience images suite](https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/circleci-images).

We have also made one of these images private ([Terraform](https://github.com/circleci/circleci-images/issues/294)), in order to avoid as much customer confusion as possible. (We may make additional of these non-customer-facing images private in the future.)

**If you were or are using one of these images—some of the mostly likely candidates being, e.g., Splunk Forwarder, Terraform, RabbitMQ, or Cassandra—please switch to official community images of these services:**

- Cassandra: [hub.docker.com/\_/cassandra](https://hub.docker.com/_/cassandra)
- RabbitMQ: [hub.docker.com/\_/rabbitmq](https://hub.docker.com/_/rabbitmq)
- Splunk Forwarder: [hub.docker.com/r/splunk/universalforwarder](https://hub.docker.com/r/splunk/universalforwarder)
- Terraform: [hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/terraform](https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/terraform)

If an image on [hub.docker.com/r/circleci](https://hub.docker.com/r/circleci) is _not_ marked as a CircleCI convenience image, it means, at a minimum, that it was not created with customer use-cases in mind; we may not keep it updated with upstream bugfixes or new releases and can make no guarantees w.r.t its functionality for customers.

**Information about customer-facing convenience images is available below:**

- [https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/circleci-images](https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/circleci-images)
- [https://github.com/circleci/circleci-images](https://github.com/circleci/circleci-images)

Going forward, we are exploring dividing convenience images and internal-use images into separate Docker Hub organizations, to make this experience simpler for users.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![rose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/rose/32/7816_2.png) [@rose](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/rose)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/convenience-images-update-clarifying-customer-facing-vs-internal-use-docker-hub-repos/27002/2 "2019-01-05T17:04:35Z")

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