docker

Docker Hub is down

Cristian Buleandra

Cristian Buleandra

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Your apps and CI pipelines might fail with errors like:

 [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/node:18
2025-Sep-24 23:25:31.336478
#3 ERROR: pulling from host registry-1.docker.io failed with status code [manifests 18]: 401 Unauthorized

Don't worry, it's not you, Docker Hub itself is down, so no images can be pulled: https://www.dockerstatus.com/

Even trying to access image details on the web version results in errors.

For example, trying to see the Ubuntu releases https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu results in:

Scope: Docker Hub Registry, Docker Authentication, Docker Hub Web Services, Docker Scout, Docker Build Cloud, Docker Cloud, Docker Hardened Images

Basically, you can't use Docker to run new (public) images or recreate containers that require pulling the image again.

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