Docker registry list

Factors to consider on selecting a Docker registry:

Docker images can be stored in various Docker registries depending on various factors. These are some of them:

  • Private or public Docker registry: Privacy of your images, open to everybody or private.
  • Role based repository: Roles that provide different levels of permissions to the container registry.
  • Region/zone of the repository: Latency and speed of pulling and pushing images from servers around the world.
  • Public cloud integration: Easy to pull/push images from public clouds and their authentication and authorization methods.
  • CI/CD integration: Easy to pull/push images from your CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, TeamCity, Bamboo, Gitlab, CodeShip, etc.
  • Pricing: Price per image, group of images or size of the images.
  • Use different Docker registries than Docker Hub for backup purposes.

Hosted/SaaS Docker registry list:

On-prem:

(*) Docker Security Scanning included.

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