Docker Registry

JFrog offers an end-to-end solution covering the full lifecycle of your Docker registry allowing you to manage development, vulnerability analysis, artifact flow control and distribution.

The JFrog Platform provides you with unlimited, high-performant access to Docker Hub and to Docker Official Images to simplify cloud-native application development, without Docker Hub image-pull limits. * Available to SaaS cloud JFrog Platform subscribers, including free subscription offered on AWS, GCP & Azure.

Docker Integration Features

Multiple secure, highly available Docker registries

Artifactory lets you create any number of Docker registries per instance. Use a local repository as a private Docker registry to share Docker images across your organization with fine-grained access control. Proxy and cache remote Docker registries with remote repositories, and aggregate local and remote Docker registries under a single virtual Docker registry to access all your images from a single URL.

Take Docker to Production with Confidence

Set up a fully automated Docker promotion pipeline. Only promote a Docker image to the next level if it passes the required quality gates at each stage so you can be sure that any image that ends up in production systems or is downloaded by end users has been tried, tested and fully approved through an automated process with Artifactory’s REST API.

Full Automation with REST API and JFrog CLI

Artifactory exposes an extensive REST API that provides access to its features anywhere in the development cycle effectively letting you automate any action you could do through the UI. JFrog CLI is a compact and smart client that greatly simplifies and optimizes automation scripts making them more efficient, more readable and easier to maintain across all JFrog products. Between them, the REST API and JFrog CLI facilitate fully automated and optimized software delivery.

Enterprise Ready

Artifactory brings enterprise artifact management to Docker. A secure Docker registry or multiple registries in a clustered Artifactory High Availability installation provide unmatched stability and reliability accommodating any number of users, build servers and interactions. Through cloud-based providers, Artifactory offers massively scalable storage that can accommodate terabyte-laden repositories. Advanced replication options support any network topology over multiple, geographically distant sites facilitating disaster recovery with instant failover to a DR site anywhere in the world.

Optimize Builds

Using Artifactory as your Docker Repository instead of Private Repositories on Docker Hub removes any issues related to networking or internet connectivity. When all of your Docker images are accessed through local repositories in Artifactory, connectivity is never a problem, not for developers nor CI servers.

Universal Solution

No company lives by Docker alone. The Docker images you develop will become the runtime containers for the software that implements your business logic. As a universal repository manager, Artifactory supports all major package formats and provides the same fully-featured artifact management with exhaustive metadata for any development technology. Artifactory is also tightly integrated with all major build tools and CI servers and comfortably sits at the heart of any development ecosystem.

FAQ

How does JFrog Container Registry work with Docker?

JFrog Container Registry is a repository manager, allowing you to build, store, and manage Docker images for all types of container deployments. It is available as a self-hosted (Freemium) or SaaS solution powered by Artifactory and with an Easy to Use UI with an Advanced Image Layer View and images search capabilities.

How to set up a Docker registry?

It only takes a few minutes to set up your own Docker registry in Artifactory to manage all your Docker images. You can exercise fine-grain access control on the Docker registries you create, to manage secure private repositories.

How to create a Docker public repository?

All repositories in Artifactory can be as open or as restricted as you need them to be. You establish what user groups can and cannot access certain repositories by setting permission targets that specify what actions can be performed by those users.

How to push a Docker image to a remote repository?

A remote Docker repository in Artifactory serves as a caching proxy for a registry managed at a remote URL such as on Docker Hub. A remote repository can even proxy a Docker repository managed at a remote site by another instance of Artifactory.

What is a Private Docker Registry?

A private Docker registry catalogues a collection of Docker repositories, while limiting access. Each repository holds container images that can be distributed to a Docker engine. Docker registries can be accessed through the Docker client, or through the Docker Registry HTTP API, to push images to, or distribute images from the repositories in its collection.

How does Artifactory provide security and permission access to your Docker registry?

A private Docker registry in Artifactory securely shares collections of Docker repositories within your organization, limiting use to those with permissions. When installed on-premises in your data center, Artifactory can maintain your Docker trusted registry on your own server, behind your organization’s firewall along with all of the sensitive data you need to protect for security or regulatory compliance.

Is Artifactory fully compatible with Docker?

Artifactory supports the relevant calls of the Docker Registry HTTP API, so you can manage all your Docker images in Artifactory transparently with the Docker client. Just invoke Docker from the command line as you would any other Docker registry service to add images to a repository or pull images for distribution to a Docker engine.