I have few docker images composed together in the stack using docker-compose.yml.
Now I want to transfer whole docker compose stack to the other host machine without uploading to the dockerhub,
And deploy it on the docker swarm.
I saw there is a thing called docker compose bundle, would that help?
If you’re deploying on a multi-host swarm (or something similar like Kubernetes or Nomad) you all but need a Docker registry. It doesn’t specifically have to be Docker Hub — quay.io, Amazon’s ECR, Google’s GCR, and self-hosted registries all work fine — but you do need to have pushed the built images somewhere where the orchestrator can retrieve them by name.
I’ve never used docker-compose bundle myself, but its documentation also notes that its operation “requires interaction with a Docker registry”.
The only real alternative is using docker save and docker load to manually move images between machines, but as a manual process it will get tedious very quickly, and you need to make sure an identical set of images are on every machine for consistency. Using a registry will be vastly easier.
The easyest way to do it is to use a Docker registry. The problem with Docker Hub is that you can only have one private registry, the rest must be public or paid.
Thankfully, there are other (free) alternatives:
Deploy your own private registry. Here is a nice tutorial where you can try it in the browser.
Use a free private registry. I personnaly use Codefresh. It can automatically build your image from a private repo (like bitbucket who has free plan too), but you can also just use it like a "simple" docker registry and push and pull your Docker images there.
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I am trying to build a multi-arch image but would like to avoid pushing it to docker hub. I've had a lot of trouble finding out how to control the export options. is there a way to make "--push" push to a registry of my choosing?
Any help is appreciated
Docker provides a container image for a registry server that you may self run even on localhost, see: Deploying a registry server.
There are other servers|services that implement the registry API (see below) but this is a good place to start.
Conventionally, images pushed|pulled default to Docker registry; unless a registry is explicitly specifed, an image e.g. your-image:your-tag defaults to docker.io/my-image:my-tag. In my opinion, it's a good practice to always include this default to be more transparent about this.
If you run Docker's registry image on localhost on the default port 5000, you'll need to take your images with localhost:5000/your-image:your-tag to ensure that when you docker push localhost:5000/your-image:your-tag, the CLI is able to determine your local registry is the intended destination.
Similarly, if you use e.g. Quay registry, images must be prefixed quay.io, Google Artifact Registry, images are prefixed ${REGION}-docker.pkg.dev/${PROJECT}/${REPOSITORY} etc.
IIRC it's not possible to push to Docker's registry (aka dockerhub) without an account so, as long as you ensure you're not logged in, you should not accidentally push images to Docker's registry.
NOTE You only need to use a registry to ease distribution of container images between machines. If you're only interested in local(host) development, you can docker run ... immediately after a successful docker build without any pushing|pulling (beyond interim images, e.g. FROM).
Can a docker registry populated on one host be 'tree-copied' to another machine and be 'turned on' as a pre-populated docker registry served by the new host?
I am working on a project providing Platform-as-a-Service which includes a docker registry service. These run in disconnected environments (not connected to the Internet). One very time consuming aspect of each deployment is creating an empty registry and loading, tagging, and pushing hundreds of docker images (tens of gigabytes of data) from a compressed tar into the registry for each new deployment.
I am thinking it would be faster to do this differently. Instead of a tarball of docker files, could we at 'build time' create and populate the docker registry then and compress that. At deploy time we just unpack the registry into /var/lib/registry or wherever...
But, I don't know if any of the data in the registry is dependent upon, say, a machine ID, certificate, or other aspect of the host upon which the registry was first running.
It seems to me an equivalent question is, if I populate two docker registries running on different machines with the same set of docker images in the same order, will the file contents of the registry folder be the same (or similar, allowing for timestamps and such?)
Every time I search for "docker registry transfer" or "move docker registry to new machine" or similar terms, I am flooded with answers about moving single docker images from one machine or registry to another, but don't see anything about docker registry migration or portability.
I haven't had the time or resources to test this out; maybe someone already expert in docker registry structures could clue me in that this is practical (or can say it absolutely will not work) I can make a better decision about whether to pursue getting the time and machines to demonstrate this approach.
Thank you.
I don't know if any of the data in the registry is dependent upon,
say, a machine ID, certificate, or other aspect of the host upon which
the registry was first running.
The configuration will be associated to the registry, for example, if you are running a secure registry by adding certs to the registry.
In this case, you will have to configure the registry in the same manner on a new machine as on the previous machine, use a configuration manager(like ansible) for that.
Instead of a tarball of docker files, could we at 'build time' create
and populate the docker registry then and compress that. At deploy
time we just unpack the registry into /var/lib/registry or wherever...
Adding to what #DazWilkin already mentioned in the comments, a storage location can be configured which can be,
filesystem: the rootdirectory default is /var/lib/registry
based on the cloud provider if the registry is deployed on a private cloud
Example, S3 bucket for AWS
You can take backup of that like the rootdirectory in case of filesystem or attach the storage location to the new registry.
**Words of caution**
Try to use the exact configuration and version of the docker registry.
I am looking to a solution to fasten development with docker images and their testing.
Does it exist a solution that would expose all tagged images from a host through a docker registry API ?
This would allow to do:
docker build
List item
docker tags
NOT populating a registry
and have the docker image already available, and usable in kubernetes for example.
I am surprise this doesn't already exists.
How do people iterate on docker images (fixing config, checking everything deploy correctly, etc ...) ?
I was used to do it locally with docker-compose, but using Kubernetes makes a registry mandatory and seems to complicate things a bit more.
Aim: to deploy a private registry
Discussion
private repository
I have read multiple posts and now I am confused. I have tried to run a docker container that should serve a private docker registry, but it returns an empty UI. Some posts indicate that it has been deprecated, but some other do not.
images
I used to navigate to dockerhub, but now there is https://store.docker.com?
Questions
Has docker registry been phased out?
Should one now use https://store.docker.com in stead of docker hub?
Docker hub still exists and will remain for the open source projects as it always has.
Docker store is a new offering for commercial images.
The standalone registry does not have a UI, don't believe it ever has. It's intended to be accessed with docker push and docker pull commands.
I was wondering if there was a way to clone images from a local server.
The servers running containers will be hosted behind a bandwidth constrained connection. It would be great if there was a way to pull given containers for one server and then pull from that initial local server to update the containers on the remaining servers.
You could pull those images you want, give hem a new tag, and put them in your own registry.
For instance, let's say you pulled down the official registry image and stood it up at myregistry.internal.mycompany.com. Now, if you wanted to have a CentOS image available for all of your servers but didn't want to pull them all from the official repo (incurring the bandwitch charges) then you could pull a CentOS image (let's say centos:latest - docker pull centos) and then give that image a new tag, like this:
docker tag centos:latest myregistry.internal.mycompany.com/centos:latest
Now from your other servers you just pull 'myregistry.internal.mycompany.com/centos:latest'
Setting up your own repo is really easy as a docker container itself. You can pull the image and learn more at https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/registry/
I think you have a few options. If what you actually want to manage is images rather than containers:
You could set up a private Docker registry, and then push to/pull from that local repository. This may ultimately be the easiest if that is something that you want to do fairly often, because you're just using standard docker push/docker pull commands.
You could use docker save to save images on one server and docker load to load the images on another server.
If you are actually trying to move containers around:
You could use docker export on one server and docker import on another server.