We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.

December 8, 2025 · 148 words · One minute

We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which

We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community. For those of you catching up, we recently emailed accounts that are members of Free Team organizations, to let them know that they will lose features unless they move to one of our supported free or paid offerings. This impacted less than 2% of our users. The Docker Free Team subscription was deprecated in part because it was poorly targeted. In particular, it didn’t serve the open source audience as well as , the latter offering benefits that exceed those of the deprecated Free Team plan. We’re sorry that our initial communications failed to make this clear. We apologize again for the poor communication and execution surrounding this deprecation and promise to continue to .