Run the Docker Registry with High Availability
Support for Portworx on the following orchestrators will be deprecated:
- Docker Swarm and Docker Standalone
- Nomad
For installation instructions on other platforms, refer to the Platform guides section.
The Docker Registry is a server-side application that stores and lets you distribute Docker images. The following instructions use Docker Registry version 2.3.0.
Step 1: Create a storage volume for the Docker Registry
To create a storage volume for the Docker Registry, run the following command on each server and make a note of the returned volume ID. You will need the volume ID when you start the Registry container in the next step.
docker volume create -d pxd --name registry_volume --opt \
size=4 --opt block_size=64 --opt repl=3 --opt fs =ext4
That command creates a volume to attach to your Docker Registry container. The Docker Registry stores its data in the /tmp/registry
directory. Use the Docker -v
option to attach the Portworx volume to this directory.
If you don't have the Registry image available locally, you can pull it with docker pull registry
.
Step 2: Start the Docker Registry
To start the Docker Registry, run the following command. Substitute DOCKER_CREATE_VOLUME_ID
for the volume id from the docker volume create
command.
docker run -d -p 5000:5000 --name registry \
-v registry_volume:/var/lib/registry registry:2
Your Docker Registry is now available for Docker push and pull commands on port 5000.