Comment by remram
6 years ago
If you just need to send the request, not read the content in full, that can be done by one free-tier cloud VM.
6 years ago
If you just need to send the request, not read the content in full, that can be done by one free-tier cloud VM.
Reading the content still should not be a problem, since ingress is free for almost all cloud providers.
> ingress is free for almost all cloud providers.
that would still pose a problem, not cost-wise, but you'd still need to download image after image. Will a single instance be capable of "downloading" all existing images every 6 months?
Which hosting provider and product provides such free-tier cloud VMs?
None of the big providers offer always-free VMs, but if you could just ping the registry endpoint, Lambda might be able to do it since you get 3.2 million seconds of compute "always free"[0]. Same for Google Cloud Run, although it's only 1GB egress a month[1], and Azure Functions[2].
0: https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.addi...
1: https://cloud.google.com/free#always-free-products_5
2: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/free-account-faq/
Google Cloud offers 1 free always-on f1-micro VM.