Miniforge Migration Check: Anaconda in Docker, CI

Finds every line in a Dockerfile or CI YAML that still pulls Miniconda, Anaconda images or Anaconda's terms, and prints the Miniforge line that replaces it. On the sample 41-line GitHub Actions ci.yml it finds six: five errors and one warning.

Hub page: https://getreadystack.com/tools/miniforge-migration-check

What it finds (12 rules)

Comment lines (# …) are skipped, so a note like # was continuumio/miniconda3 does not count.

Why these lines matter

Anaconda's Terms of Service (anaconda.com/legal/terms/terms-of-service, read 2026-10-10) say a for-profit organization with more than 200 total employees or contractors, including all affiliates, must pay for a Business Plan to use the Platform. The same terms define a "User" as human or non-human, and name CI/CD jobs, service accounts, serverless processes and AI agents as non-human users. A User counts as active for 12 months after it accesses packages on repo.anaconda.com.

So a single container: continuumio/miniconda3 job, a Miniconda installer download, or a conda tos accept line in a pipeline is the company accepting those terms. Miniforge is the community installer from the conda-forge project. Its only channel is conda-forge, so none of these lines are needed.

Yardstick: anaconda.com/pricing lists the Business plan at $50 per user per month (read 2026-10-10).

How to use it

1. Open a Dockerfile, .github/workflows/*.yml or .gitlab-ci.yml.
2. Findings appear in the Problems panel with the line number. Each message ends with the replacement line after →.
3. Run Miniforge Migration Check: Check this file from the Command Palette to re-check on demand.

The free web page runs the same engine: paste a file and read the same findings.

Free and paid

Free, no key: check the open file. You get every finding with its file line and its Miniforge replacement.

With a licence key: scan every Dockerfile and CI file in the workspace in one pass and export a dated Markdown migration plan that maps each Anaconda pull to its Miniforge line. Get the workspace migration plan

Limits

It reads text. It cannot tell how many employees your company has, and it cannot tell whether you already hold an Anaconda licence. It does not read environment.yml channel lists. It does not follow a script that another script downloads. This is not legal advice: the terms on anaconda.com decide.