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Use case

Sell Dockerized software like a SaaS

Stripe-gated container distribution.

Turn Docker images and private packages into paid products — with entitlements, scoped credentials, and Stripe-backed subscriptions.

The problem

You’ve built a container your customers want to run on-prem. You can hand it over, but then there’s no upgrade path, no entitlement check, no recurring revenue. You could roll your own licensing layer — or you could not.

Our answer

Dockyard gates Docker pulls with Stripe subscriptions. Slipstream does the same for npm, Composer, PyPI, Cargo, Go modules, and NuGet. Both issue scoped per-customer credentials, validate against the registry on every pull, and auto-cancel access when subscriptions lapse.

What you get

Outcomes

How it fits together

The pipeline

  1. 1

    Push your image or package

    Use the standard Docker CLI or npm/composer/pip/cargo CLI — Dockyard and Slipstream speak the native protocols.

  2. 2

    List it as a product in Stripe

    Create a Stripe product with one or more plans. Link it to the image or package name in the dashboard.

  3. 3

    Customer checks out

    Customer self-serves through Stripe Checkout. On success, a webhook provisions a scoped pull credential and emails it.

  4. 4

    Pulls are auth-gated

    Every `docker pull` or `npm install` validates against the subscription. Cancel a subscription, the credential stops working.

The stack

Products in this pattern

The products that make the pattern work. Each is a Docker image; each slots into the same contract.

Dockyard

Registry

Sell Dockerised apps by subscription — a Stripe-gated Docker registry with no source handoff, just pull credentials.

CNCF Distribution v3 registry with StripeJWT RS256 token auth with JWKS-basedNetwork-isolated registry

Slipstream

Registry

A self-hosted private package registry and dependency accelerator for 6 ecosystems (Composer, npm, PyPI, Cargo, Go, NuGet) with Stripe billing.

Multi-ecosystemDependency acceleratorPrivate packages from GitHub
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