Docker Hub rate limits impact

[Angelos Naoum]

As DockerHub is changing its policy reagarding the rate limits on pulls, is there any guide/consultation on how this will impact BitBucket Pipelines at all? 

I can imagine that for users that are using non-free plans of DockerHub, just a pipeline step that authenticates on DockerHub must be fine but are there any other things that should be taken into consideration for the end users?

https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/usage/ 

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/03/24/prepare-now-docker-hub-rate-limits-will-impact-gitlab-ci-cd/

[Patrik S]

Hello @Angelos Naoum ,

One of our product managers has recently posted a community article addressing some details on the impact of this change on Bitbucket Pipelines. You can check the article in the link below:

• Docker Hub IP rate limiting

This article also includes examples of how to authenticate with DockerHub at different sections of your pipelines YAML file.

I hope that helps! Let us know in case you have any outstanding questions.

Thank you!

Patrik S

[Tiago Jesus]

Good question. There needs to be a clear response about how this will impact pipelines.