Changing username/moving to org, does it effect existing docker images? Any redirect?

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I am wanting to migrate to a dockerhub org as I don’t want to keep directing my users to
frooodle/app
and would prefer to send them to something like
org-name/app

If I did such a name change would users using frooodle/app:latest download from org-name/app:latest
Would any redirect happen here to aid in migration?

Additionally is there any way to rename a repo?
such as frooodle/app to frooodle/app2 and have any redirect happen here?

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No, I don’t think so. Since I don’t frequently check it, I did it now and couldn’t find anything.

Regarding the account conversion, as far as I know, when you convert your personal account to an organization, the account name will be the name of the organization. I never converted any account, so I could be wrong, but it seems the documentation confirms it

Since the image names will not be affected by the conversion, you would not need redirection. If your goal is to rename your images, which seems to be the case, you will need to create a new organization, pull all of your images, retag them to the new organization and push them to the new repositories. Again, there is no redirection.

Note that in the past when Docker wanted to discontinue the old free tier organization support, I did the opposite of what you want. I moved my images back to my personal account as I used the free organization only as a namespace. I did push the images back to the personal account’s repositories but I updated my automatic builds to temporarily support both repositories but I added a note to the readme asking users to use the new tag. You can even add a warning to the entrypoint of your images if you want to, but it would require adding the warning only to the images with the old tag so it would complicate your build pipeline.

You can also contact the Docker support asking if there is a way to rename your account as when the free organizations were planned to be discontinued, they offered a manual renaming by the support. Eventually it didn’t happen as they kept the free organizations with limitations.

If you still want to convert your account, you will need another account that can be set as owner of the organization.