Gitlab Container Registry

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Introduction

Yesterday we released GitLab 8.8, super powering GitLab’s built-in continuous integration. With it, you can build a pipeline in GitLab, visualizing your builds, tests, deploys and any other stage of the life cycle of your software. Today (and already in GitLab 8.8), we’re releasing the next step: GitLab Container Registry.

GitLab Container Registry is a secure and private registry for Docker images. Built on open source software, GitLab Container Registry isn’t just a standalone registry; it’s completely integrated with GitLab.

GitLab is all about having a single, integrated experience and our registry is no exception. You can now easily use your images for GitLab CI, create images specific for tags or branches and much more.

Our container registry is the first Docker registry that is fully integrated with Git repository management and comes out of the box with GitLab 8.8. So if you’ve upgraded, you already have it! This means our integrated Container Registry requires no additional installation. It allows for easy upload and download of images from GitLab CI. And it’s free.

Docker Basics

The main component of a Docker-based workflow is an image, which contains everything needed to run an application. Images are often created automatically as part of continuous integration, so they are updated whenever code changes. When images are built to be shared between developers and machines, they need to be stored somewhere, and that’s where a container registry comes in.

The registry is the place to store and tag images for later use. Developers may want to maintain their own registry for private, company images, or for throw-away images used only in testing.

Using GitLab Container Registry means you don’t need to set up and administer yet another service, or use a public registry.

Summary

GitLab Container Registry is the latest addition to GitLab’s integrated set of tools for the software development life cycle and comes with GitLab 8.8 and up.

With GitLab Container Registry, testing and deploying Docker containers has never been easier. GitLab Container Registry is available on-premises in GitLab CE and GitLab EE at no additional cost and installs in the same infrastructure as the rest of your GitLab instance.

Container Registry is enabled on GitLab.com; it’s completely free, and you can start using it right now!