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How to create a Local Private Docker Registry on Play with Docker in 5 Minutes?

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DockerHub is a service provided by Docker for finding and sharing container images with your team. It is the world’s largest repository of container images with an array of content sources including container community developers, open source projects and independent software vendors (ISV) building and distributing their code in containers. Users get access to free public repositories for storing and sharing images or can choose subscription plan for private repos.

One can easily pull the Docker Image from Dockerhub and run application in their environment flawlessly. But in case you want to setup a private registry, it is still possible to accomplish. Under this blog post, I will demonstrate how to build a private registry on Play with Docker in just 5 minutes.

Caution – Please note that Play with Docker platform is just for demo or training purpose. As the instance wipe away after 4 hours of limited time, it’s better to save your data before it gets wiped up.

Tested Infrastructure

PlatformNumber of InstanceReading Time
Play with Docker15 min

Pre-requisite

  • Create an account with DockerHub
  • Open PWD Platform on your browser
  • Click on Add New Instance on the left side of the screen to bring up Alpine OS instance on the right side

Create a directory to permanently store images.

$ mkdir -p /opt/registry/data

Authenticate with DockerHub

$docker login

Start the registry container.

$ docker run -d \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  --name registry \
  -v /opt/registry/data:/var/lib/registry \
  --restart always \
  registry:2

Display running containers.

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS
                    NAMES
3a056bf96c6d        registry:2          "/entrypoint.sh /etc…"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour    0.0.0
.0:5000->5000/tcp   registry

Pull Debian Stretch image from official repository.

$ docker pull debian:stretch

stretch: Pulling from library/debian
723254a2c089: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:0a5fcee6f52d5170f557ee2447d7a10a5bdcf715dd7f0250be0b678c556a501b
Status: Downloaded newer image for debian:stretch

Tag local Debian Stretch image with an additional tag – local repository address.

$ docker tag debian:stretch localhost:5000/debian:stretch

Push image to the local repository.

[node1] (local) root@192.168.0.23 ~
$ docker push localhost:5000/debian:stretch
The push refers to repository [localhost:5000/debian]
90d1009ce6fe: Pushed
stretch: digest: sha256:38236c068c393272ad02db100e09cac36a5465149e2924a035ee60d6c60c38fe size: 529

Remove local images.

[node1] (local) root@192.168.0.23 ~
$ docker image remove debian:stretch
Untagged: debian:stretch
Untagged: debian@sha256:df6ebd5e9c87d0d7381360209f3a05c62981b5c2a3ec94228da4082ba07c4f05
[node1] (local) root@192.168.0.23 ~
$ docker image remove localhost:5000/debian:stretch
Untagged: localhost:5000/debian:stretch
Untagged: localhost:5000/debian@sha256:38236c068c393272ad02db100e09cac36a5465149e2924a035ee60d6c60c38fe
Deleted: sha256:4879790bd60d439cfe39c063660eef7af525d5f6f1cbb701a14c7cfc11cbfcf7

Pull Debian Stretch image from local repository.

[node1] (local) root@192.168.0.23 ~
$ docker pull localhost:5000/debian:stretch
stretch: Pulling from debian
54f7e8ac135a: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:38236c068c393272ad02db100e09cac36a5465149e2924a035ee60d6c60c38fe
Status: Downloaded newer image for localhost:5000/debian:stretch

List stored images.

[node1] (local) root@192.168.0.23 ~
$ docker image ls
REPOSITORY              TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
localhost:5000/debian   stretch             4879790bd60d        12 days ago         101MB
registry                2                   2e2f252f3c88        2 months ago        33.3MB

Shared local registry

Create a directory to permanently store images.

$ mkdir -p /srv/registry/data

Create a directory to permanently store certificates and authentication data.

$ mkdir -p /srv/registry/security

Store domain and intermediate certificates using /srv/registry/security/registry.crt file, private key using /srv/registry/security/registry.key file. Use valid certificate and do not waste time with self-signed one. This step is required do use basic authentication.

Install apache2-utils to use htpasswd utility.

[node1] (local) root@192.168.0.23 ~
$ apk add apache2-utils
OK: 302 MiB in 110 packages

Create initial username and password. The only supported password format is bcrypt.

$ : | sudo tee /srv/registry/security/htpasswd
[node1] (local) root@192.168.0.23 ~
$ echo "password" | sudo htpasswd -iB /srv/registry/security/htpasswd username
Adding password for user username

Adding password for user username

$(local) root@192.168.0.23 ~ $ cat /srv/registry/security/htpasswd username:$2y$05$q9R5FSNYpAppB4Vw/AGWb.RqMCGE8DmZ4q5HZC/1wC87oTWyvB9vy 

Stop and Remove all old containers

$ docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
3a056bf96c6d
$ docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q) 
3a056bf96c6d 

Start the registry container.

[node1] (local) root@192.168.0.23 ~
$ docker run -d   -p 443:5000   --name registry   -v /srv/registry/data:/var/lib/registry   -v /srv/registry/security:/etc/security   -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_CERTIFICATE=/etc/security/registry.crt   -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_KEY=/etc/security/registry.key   -e REGISTRY_AUTH=htpasswd   -e REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_PATH=/etc/security/htpasswd   -e REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_REALM="Registry Realm"   --restart always   registry:2
e7755af8cbd70ea84ab77237a87cb97fd1abb18c7726fbc116c40f081d3b7098

Display running containers.

[node1] (local) root@192.168.0.23 ~
$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED              STATUS        PORTS               NAMES
e7755af8cbd7        registry:2          "/entrypoint.sh /etc…"   About a minute ago   Restarting (1) 22 seconds ago                       registry

Pull Debian Stretch image from official repository.

$ docker pull debian:stretch

stretch: Pulling from library/debian
723254a2c089: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:0a5fcee6f52d5170f557ee2447d7a10a5bdcf715dd7f0250be0b678c556a501b
Status: Downloaded newer image for debian:stretch

Tag local Debian Stretch image with an additional tag – local repository address.

$ docker tag debian:stretch registry.collabnix.com/debian:stretch

This time you need to provide login credentials to use local repository.

$ docker push registry.collabnix.com/debian:stretch

e27a10675c56: Preparing
no basic auth credentials
$ docker pull registry.collabnix.com/debian:stretch

Error response from daemon: Get https://registry.collabnix.com/v2/debian/manifests/stretch: no basic auth credentials

Log in to the local registry.

$ docker login --username username registry.collabnix.com
Password: ********

Login Succeeded

Push image to the local repository.

$ docker push registry.collabnix.com/debian:stretch
The push refers to repository [registry.collabnix.com/debian]
e27a10675c56: Pushed
stretch: digest: sha256:02741df16aee1b81c4aaff4c48d75cc2c308bade918b22679df570c170feef7c size: 529

Remove local images.

$ docker image remove debian:stretch

Untagged: debian:stretch
Untagged: debian@sha256:0a5fcee6f52d5170f557ee2447d7a10a5bdcf715dd7f0250be0b678c556a501b
$ docker image remove registry.collabnix.com/debian:stretch

Untagged: registry.collabnix.com/debian:stretch
Untagged: registry.sl.collabnix.com/debian@sha256:02741df16aee1b81c4aaff4c48d75cc2c308bade918b22679df570c170feef7c
Deleted: sha256:da653cee0545dfbe3c1864ab3ce782805603356a9cc712acc7b3100d9932fa5e
Deleted: sha256:e27a10675c5656bafb7bfa9e4631e871499af0a5ddfda3cebc0ac401dfe19382

Pull Debian Stretch image from local repository.

$ docker pull registry.collabnix.com/debian:stretch

stretch: Pulling from debian
723254a2c089: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:02741df16aee1b81c4aaff4c48d75cc2c308bade918b22679df570c170feef7c
Status: Downloaded newer image for registry.collabnix.com/debian:stretch

List stored images.

$ docker image ls

REPOSITORY                           TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
registry                             2                   d1fd7d86a825        4 weeks ago         33.3MB
registry.collabnix.com/debian   stretch             da653cee0545        2 months ago        100MB
hello-world                          latest              f2a91732366c        2 months ago     

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Ajeet Raina Ajeet Singh Raina is a former Docker Captain, Community Leader and Distinguished Arm Ambassador. He is a founder of Collabnix blogging site and has authored more than 700+ blogs on Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Technology. He runs a community Slack of 9800+ members and discord server close to 2600+ members. You can follow him on Twitter(@ajeetsraina).
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