Deploying Red Hat Quay using the Quay Operator
There are different ways to deploy Quay, as you can see in the product’s official documentation link that you’ll find in the Further reading section of this chapter. For didactical reasons, we decided to deploy it using the Quay Operator with fully-managed components – a comfortable way to start using Quay.
Some prerequisites are necessary to install Quay as an enterprise container registry.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites to install Quay using the Operator are as follows:
- An OpenShift cluster with a privileged account to deploy and set up Quay.
- Object storage: The supported object storage is Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Storage, Ceph/RadosGW Storage/Hitachi HCP storage, Swift storage, and NooBaa.
- Cluster capacity to host the following services:
- PostgreSQL or MySQL database. PostgreSQL is preferred due to enhanced features for Clair security scanning...
