We will never learn. I want GitHub to go down for days. :D

Yes, that's an http connection to the Docker Engine api on localhost failing due to the same issue—the docker engine cam't negotiate with the Docker Hub to get the new image and is passing the error back through the local api to your updater process.

i wonder why they can't rollback

Some yellow: https://www.dockerstatus.com/

probably because docker hub is down

Yeah, they turned yellow after around 15-30 minutes of the incident

I wonder why isn't it automated

Lol, that would actually be funny, they can't restart it because it would require pulling the image from itself.

My guess/experience - because there are probably layers of management and executives who have an uptime # in their OKRs or whatever is fashionable these days.

The decision to post anything about outages comes from the executive chain in many orgs lest they miss out on bonus compensation for the year.

This is the same reason services like docker and aws will very rarely call an outage an 'outage' - it's always 'service degradation', even when dockerhub is completely useless as it is right now.

Status pages stopped being automated a long time ago because they are bad PR.

Often you’d have dozens if not hundreds of services on a status page. If you have a major networking outage for example, then everything is technically down. Someone screen shots the sea of red that your automated status page is showing and tweets “lol everything is down at [insert company]. Then you get a million imverysmart people posting about single point of failure or whatever.

As a result status pages, in every place I know, require a human to actually declare the outage there. Internal ones are usually automated, but if your service is down due to dependency on another service, you don’t mark yourself as down.

Also most places I know of have moved away from public status alerts anyway. You get a customized alert in your account or email if you happen to be impacted by a particular outage. The public ones are for the very very _very_ bad outages.

I am surprised that they are "working on a fix" for more than 2 hours now, given the scope of the problem.

Also this comes just a couple of days after a similar incident affected all of Spain

My understanding is that it's also a legal CYA. If you have SLAs in place, outages might mean you owe money. So companies tend to err on the side of underreporting.

Are you refering to the blocking of Cloudflare when La Liga matches are played? That affects sites that use Cloudflare, but it's not the fault of Dockerhub.