Hiphops

What Hiphops is

Hiphops combines a private container registry with SaaS delivery and software licensing for products distributed into customer cloud, VPC, or on-premises environments. Shareable tokens let customers pull images from their own registries through customer cloud connections. Product keys are JWT tokens that can validate licenses and also serve as Docker registry credentials. Teams can manage registries through a dashboard or automate them with a REST API that has interactive documentation. Hiphops says it can push to or pull from ECR, Google Artifact Registry, and Docker Hub. Its Hook client library supports JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, while its homepage also lists Node.js, Deno, Bun, and Docker container support. Documentation describes project-scoped identities, roles, and permissions that keep one project's permissions from affecting another. Customer onboarding links include documentation and JWT credentials and expire after seven days. The Free plan provides 3GB of private storage and one licensed product. Registry Team costs $150 a month for 30GB of storage and five licensed products. Registry Enterprise costs $1,000 a month and includes 300GB up to unlimited storage, unlimited licensed products, and three customer cloud connections. Individual image layers can be at most 5GB.

Who it suits

Hiphops suits developers distributing licensed software as container images into customer environments, and teams that want license validation tied to registry access. It also serves sales or customer success workflows for issuing and managing customer licenses.

Limits

The Free plan includes 3GB of private storage and one licensed product. Registry Team includes 30GB and five licensed products for $150 a month; individual image layers are limited to 5GB.

Getting started

1. Visit the Hiphops website.
2. Start with the Free plan or select Registry Team or Registry Enterprise.
3. Manage the registry in the dashboard or automate it through the REST API.
4. Use the Hook client library or listed runtime and container support to integrate workflows.
5. Provide customers with onboarding links containing documentation and JWT credentials.

Verdict

Choose Hiphops if your team needs container distribution and software licensing for customer cloud, VPC, or on-premises environments. The Free plan may suit a small start, while teams needing more storage or licensed products should consider the paid plans; look elsewhere if the 5GB image-layer ceiling is unsuitable.