How to fix toomanyrequests: You have reached your pull rate limit in Docker

# Get an authentication token (anonymous)
TOKEN=$(curl -s "https://auth.docker.io/token?service=registry.docker.io&scope=repository:library/alpine:pull" | jq -r .token)

# Check rate limit headers
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -I https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/library/alpine/manifests/latest 2>&1 | grep -i ratelimit

# Log in to Docker Hub
docker login

# Or use an access token (recommended for CI/CD)
docker login -u YOUR_USERNAME -p YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN

- name: Log in to Docker Hub
  uses: docker/login-action@v3
  with:
    username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
    password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}

before_script:
  - echo "$DOCKERHUB_TOKEN" | docker login -u "$DOCKERHUB_USERNAME" --password-stdin

withCredentials([usernamePassword(credentialsId: 'dockerhub', usernameVariable: 'DOCKER_USER', passwordVariable: 'DOCKER_PASS')]) {
    sh 'echo $DOCKER_PASS | docker login -u $DOCKER_USER --password-stdin'
}

# Edit Docker daemon configuration
sudo nano /etc/docker/daemon.json

{
  "registry-mirrors": ["https://mirror.gcr.io"]
}

sudo systemctl restart docker

# docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
  registry:
    image: registry:2
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
    environment:
      REGISTRY_PROXY_REMOTEURL: https://registry-1.docker.io
    volumes:
      - registry-data:/var/lib/registry
volumes:
  registry-data:

docker pull localhost:5000/library/nginx

# Pull the image once
docker pull nginx:latest

# Tag for your registry
docker tag nginx:latest your-registry.com/nginx:latest

# Push to your registry
docker push your-registry.com/nginx:latest

skopeo copy docker://docker.io/library/nginx:latest docker://your-registry.com/nginx:latest

kubectl create secret docker-registry dockerhub-creds \
  --docker-server=https://index.docker.io/v1/ \
  --docker-username=YOUR_USERNAME \
  --docker-password=YOUR_TOKEN \
  --docker-email=YOUR_EMAIL

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: app
    image: nginx
  imagePullSecrets:
  - name: dockerhub-creds