Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

Working with the private Docker registry

Once you start to build your microservice application via Docker, you'll need to have a Docker registry to put your container image in. Docker hub offers you free public repositories, however, in some cases you might want to make your image private due to business needs or organization policy.

Docker hub offers the private repository, which only allows authenticated users to push and pull your images, and is not visible to other users. However, there is only one quota (repository) for a free plan. You may pay to increase the number of private repositories, but if you adopt the microservices architecture, you will need a large number of private repositories:

Docker hub private repositories price ...