This repository contains the following components:
Component | Description |
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registry | An implementation of the Docker Registry HTTP API V2 for use with docker 1.6+. |
libraries | A rich set of libraries for interacting with distribution components. Please see godoc for details. Note: These libraries are unstable. |
specifications | Distribution related specifications are available in docs/spec |
documentation | Docker's full documentation set is available at docs.docker.com. This repository contains the subset related just to the registry. |
This project should provide an implementation to a V2 API for use in the Docker core project. The API should be embeddable and simplify the process of securely pulling and pushing content from docker
daemons.
The Distribution project has the further long term goal of providing a secure tool chain for distributing content. The specifications, APIs and tools should be as useful with Docker as they are without.
Our goal is to design a professional grade and extensible content distribution system that allow users to:
The new registry implementation provides the following benefits:
For information on upcoming functionality, please see ROADMAP.md.
By default, Docker users pull images from Docker‘s public registry instance. Installing Docker gives users this ability. Users can also push images to a repository on Docker’s public registry, if they have a Docker Hub account.
For some users and even companies, this default behavior is sufficient. For others, it is not.
For example, users with their own software products may want to maintain a registry for private, company images. Also, you may wish to deploy your own image repository for images used to test or in continuous integration. For these use cases and others, deploying your own registry instance may be the better choice.
For those who have previously deployed their own registry based on the Registry 1.0 implementation and wish to deploy a Registry 2.0 while retaining images, data migration is required. A tool to assist with migration efforts has been created. For more information see docker/migrator.
Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to contribute issues, fixes, and patches to this project. If you are contributing code, see the instructions for building a development environment.
If any issues are encountered while using the Distribution project, several avenues are available for support:
This project is distributed under Apache License, Version 2.0.