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# Six billion docker pulls

**[daniel.haxx.se](https://daily.dev/sources/danielhaxxse)** · 2 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The official curl docker image has been pulled over six billion times, with an average of 38 pulls per second since its release in July 2019. The pull counter was obtained through the Docker API.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/24/six-billion-docker-pulls/>

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Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#containers](https://daily.dev/tags/containers), [#curl](https://daily.dev/tags/curl)

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