Cloud-based and on-premise container registries
As we introduced in the previous sections, the OCI defined a standard to adhere to for container registries. This initiative allowed the rise of many other container registries apart from the initial Docker Registry and its online service, Docker Hub.
We can group the available container registries into two main categories:
- Cloud-based container registries
- On-premise container registries
Let's see these two categories in detail in the following subsections.
On-premise container registries
On-premise container registries are often used for creating a private repository for enterprise purposes. The main use cases include the following:
- Distributing images in a private or isolated network
- Deploying a new container image at a large scale over several machines
- Keeping any sensitive data in our own data center
- Improving the speed of pulling and pushing images using an internal network ...
