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0 pointscygned8y ago0 comments

The registry itself can be self-hosted easily, however everything on top (authentication, web UI, automation, ...) is surprisingly difficult. Plus technical challenges as pointed out by other commenters.

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kuschku8y ago

GitLab includes a full docker registry, with all that.

Just run a custom GitLab instance, and you get all that for free.

For my open source projects on git.kuschku.de I also have a gitlab container registry on k8r.eu, and it’s been amazing to work with.

agotterer8y ago

AWS has a registry as well. Both solutions are and easy way to host private and public repos. But Dockerhub offers access to a huge ecosystem that everyone is already plugged into that would be devastating if it shut down. You’d potentially have to re create so many base images from scratch.

andypanik8y ago

Nexus also has a docker registry with all that.

_ix8y ago

Nexus isn’t a terrible option, but the application feels pretty dated from a deployment and maintenance perspective. We’re using it for ruby gems and internal docker registry. I haven’t looked into viable alternatives for the gems side of things—that works well enough—but we’re replacing the docker registry with gitlab.

cygnedOP8y ago

Interesting, I didn’t know that. We host a registry with HTTP simple auth and it works for us because we don’t need all that.

zawerf8y ago

There's an on premise version of docker hub (Docker Trusted Registry I think?).

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