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Container registry

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, container registry means: A storage service for container images, where pipelines push new images and servers or clusters pull them when they need to run them.

In Turkish: konteyner kayıt deposu, imaj deposu, registry

How it is used

Often just 'the registry'. Examples are Docker Hub, Amazon ECR, Azure Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry and GitHub Container Registry. Many registries scan images for known vulnerabilities.

Example sentences

  1. The pods can't start because the cluster has no permission to pull from the container registry.

  2. Our private container registry deletes untagged images after two weeks.

Common collocations

  • push to the registry
  • pull from the registry
  • private container registry
  • image scanning
  • container imageA read-only package with an application, its libraries and settings, used as the template from which containers are started.
  • DockerA widely used platform for building container images and running containers. It made containers popular after its release in 2013.
  • DockerfileA text file with step-by-step instructions, such as FROM, COPY and RUN, that Docker follows to build a container image.
  • artifactA file or package produced by a build, such as a JAR file, a binary or a container image, which is stored and later deployed.

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