The Docker Registry comes with a sample configuration file, config_sample.yml. Copy this to config.yml to provide a basic configuration:

cp config_sample.yml config.yml

Docker Registry can run in several flavors. This enables you to run it in development mode, production mode or your own predefined mode.

In the config yaml file, you'll see a few sample flavors:

1. common: used by all other flavors as base settings
2. dev: used for development
3. prod: used for production
4. test: used by unit tests
5. openstack: to integrate with openstack

You can define your own flavors by adding a new top-level yaml key.

You can specify which flavor to run by setting SETTINGS_FLAVOR in your environment: export SETTINGS_FLAVOR=dev

The default environment is dev.

common:
    loglevel: info

prod:
    loglevel: warn
    storage: local
    storage_path: /srv/docker/
    smtp_host: localhost
    from_addr: docker@myself.com
    to_addr: my@myself.com

dev:
    loglevel: debug
    storage: local
    storage_path: /home/myself/docker/

test:
    storage: local
    storage_path: /tmp/tmpdockertmp/

Specify the config file to be used by setting DOCKER_REGISTRY_CONFIG in your environment: export DOCKER_REGISTRY_CONFIG=config.yml

The location of the yaml file should be relative to the source directory. Absolute paths are not yet supported.

The default location of the config file is config.yml, located in the source directory.

1. secret_key: 64 character string, this key should be unique and secret. It is used by the Registry to sign secret things. If you leave this blank, the Registry will generate a random string.
2. loglevel: string, level of debugging. Any of python's logging module levels: debug, info, warn, error or critical

1. standalone: boolean, run the server in stand-alone mode. This means that the Index service on index.docker.io will not be used for anything. This implies disable_token_auth.

2. index_endpoint: string, configures the hostname of the Index endpoint. This is used to verify passwords of users that log in. It defaults to https://index.docker.io. You should probably leave this to its default.

3. disable_token_auth: boolean, disable checking of tokens with the Docker index. You should provide your own method of authentication (such as Basic auth).

These options configure your S3 storage. These are used when storage is set to s3.

1. s3_access_key: string, S3 access key
2. s3_secret_key: string, S3 secret key
3. s3_bucket: string, S3 bucker name

Settings these options makes the Registry send an email on each code Exception:

1. email_exceptions:
2. smtp_host: hostname to connect to using SMTP
3. smtp_login: username to use when connecting to authenticated SMTP
4. smtp_password: password to use when connecting to authenticated SMTP
5. from_addr: email address to use when sending email
6. to_addr: email address to send exceptions to

Example:

test:
    email_exceptions:
        smtp_host: localhost

storage: can be one of:

1. local: store images on local storage
2. storage_path local path to the image store
3. s3: store images on S3
4. storage_path is a subdir in your S3 bucker
5. remember to set all s3_* options (see above)
6. glance: store images on Glance (OpenStack)
7. storage_alternate: storage engine to use when Glance storage fails, e.g. local
8. If you use storage_alternate local, remeber to set storage_path

docker run samalba/docker-registry

NOTE: The container will try to allocate the port 5000 by default, if the port is already taken, find out which one has been taken by running "docker ps"

Install the system requirements for building a Python library:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev libevent-dev python-pip

Then install the Registry app:

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

sudo yum install python-devel libevent-devel python-pip

NOTE: On RHEL and CentOS you will need the EPEL repostitories enabled. Fedora should not require the additional repositories.

Then install the Registry app:

sudo python-pip install -r requirements.txt

gunicorn --access-logfile - --debug -k gevent -b 0.0.0.0:5000 -w 1 wsgi:application

The first time someone tries to push to your registry, it will prompt them for a username, password, and email.

The recommended setting to run the Registry in a prod environment is gunicorn behind a nginx server which supports chunked transfer-encoding (nginx >= 1.3.9).

You could use for instance supervisord to spawn the registry with 8 workers using this command:

gunicorn -k gevent --max-requests 100 --graceful-timeout 3600 -t 3600 -b localhost:5000 -w 8 wsgi:application

Note that when using multiple workers, the secret_key for the Flask session must be set explicitly in config.yml. Otherwise each worker will use its own random secret key, leading to unpredictable behavior.

The nginx configuration will look like:

location / {
  proxy_pass        http://localhost:5000;
  proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
}

And you might want to add Basic auth on Nginx to protect it (if you're not using it on your local network):

Enable mod_proxy using a2enmod proxy_http, then use this snippet forward requests to the Docker Registry:

  ProxyPreserveHost  On
  ProxyRequests      Off
  ProxyPass          /  http://localhost:5000/
  ProxyPassReverse   /  http://localhost:5000/

The central Registry runs on the dotCloud platform:

cd docker-registry/
dotcloud create myregistry
dotcloud push

If you want to submit a pull request, please run the unit tests using tox before submitting anything to the repos:

pip install tox
cd docker-registry/
tox