Example Setup

A lot of issues where opened that deal with setting up a registry and a front-end.

This document describes how you can setup a basic registry v2 and a front-end with almost no effort. We will start with a basic working configuration and later you can plug your configuration (like certificates) in to adapt everything to your needs.

I highly recommend you try out this setup before you open an issue regarding setup of any kind.

Directory layout

This is the directory layout of this example setup:

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├── docker-compose.yml
├── frontend
│   └── certs
│       ├── frontend.crt
│       └── frontend.key
├── REAME.md
└── registry
    ├── certs
    │   ├── registry.crt
    │   └── registry.key
    ├── config
    │   └── config.yml
    └── storage

Starting the registry and front-end

Notice that there's a docker-compose.yml file. With a simple docker-compose up command, the registry and front-end containers will be up and running.

Usage

Make sure your docker daemon allows access to your insecure registry by adding --insecure-registry=0.0.0.0:5000 to your DOCKER_OPTS in /etc/default/docker (at least this is where you find it in Ubuntu 14.04).

Then restart your docker daemon: sudo service docker restart

Run these commands to pull a busybox image and upload it to your registry:

docker pull busybox
docker tag busybox 0.0.0.0:5000/busybox/busybox
docker push 0.0.0.0:5000/busybox/busybox

Then enter this URL in your browser to access the front-end: https://0.0.0.0:8443. You should see the busybox image that we just pushed.

SSL

By default the front-end as well as the registry are protected by SSL using dedicated self-signed certificates. Feel free to replace them with your own.

Registry config

You might want to adjust the registry/config/config.yml before going into production with this setup.

Have fun!