Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a Docker registry service managed by AWS. ECR is scalable, secure, and reliable. ECR supports private Docker repositories with resource-based permissions using IAM so that specific users or AWS EC2 instances can access repositories and images. Using ECR is a bit different than using a Docker hub in terms of authenticity and permissions. The following are some components of Amazon ECR:
- Registry: The Amazon ECR registry is provided to each AWS account (as of writing this book, it is available in 12 regions only; for now, it means that it's not available in Mumbai, Seoul, and Sau Paulo). We can create repositories in the registry and store an image in that repository.
- Authorization Token: To access the ECR, the Docker client needs to authenticate to Amazon ECR registries as an AWS...
