Hi everyone,
Docker recently announced that rate limits will apply to anonymous image pulls from Docker Hub starting on November 1st, 2020. But as long as you add Docker authentication to your pipeline config, you can avoid service disruption.
If you use the Docker executor or pull Docker images when using the machine executor on CircleCI, we encourage you to authenticate. Because the anonymous API rate limits are based on IP address, they will impact CircleCI cloud and server customers. Authenticated users get higher per-user rate limits regardless of IP.
We are currently working on a partnership with Docker to minimize the impact of this rate limit change for our users and will share more details as we get them.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to post them here.
Update: Our teams are hard at work creating solutions and gathering information about this change. Our support team has put together a list of FAQs, including how to tell if your authentication was successful.
Good news!
CircleCI has partnered with Docker to ensure that our users can continue to access Docker Hub without rate limits. On November 1st, with few exceptions, you should not be impacted by any rate limits when pulling images from Docker Hub through CircleCI.
However, these rate limits may go into effect for CircleCI users in the future. Thatâs why weâre encouraging you and your team to add Docker Hub authentication to your CircleCI configuration and consider upgrading your Docker Hub plan, as appropriate, to prevent any impact from rate limits in the future.
Thanks and happy building!