Understanding the importance of container and artifact registries as entry points
Container and artifact registries deserve their own chapter as they are one of the core building blocks of modern cloud-native platforms. However, we will try to provide the relevant knowledge that should help you follow along with what’s to come in the later chapters of this book.
We differentiate between public and private registries:
- Public registries are commonly used by individuals or small teams that want to get up and running with their registries as quickly as possible. However, at some point, it’s worth looking at private registries.
- Private registries provide several critical capabilities, such as efficient storage of images, scanning for vulnerabilities, replicating images to other registries, enforcing access control when images get pulled, and notifying other tools about updates, with the ultimate goal of making images fast and easily accessible to those environments...
