CI/CD

In July 2023, GitHub released a new feature called repository rules. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first, but then I faced multiple cases where branch protection rules felt like “something is missing”, and recently I decided to give repository rules (A.K.A. repository rulesets) a try. I was surprised by how much more flexible and powerful they are compared to traditional branch protection rules, so I wanted to share useful stuff about them, especially for those who haven’t heard of / tried repository rules yet. ...

DockerHub rate limits DockerHub has a strict rate limit policy, especially for anonymous pulls. for anynomyous users: 100 pulls per 6 hours per IP address. for authenticated users: 200 pulls per 6 hours per IP address. => if your usage exceeds these limits, your requests are denied until the six-hour window elapses. Despite the fact that for authenticated users the rate limit is higher, these limits can easily break the CI/CD pipelines which use DockerHub as a source of base images, especially if runners aren’t ephemeral and use the same IP address for multiple builds. ...