Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

Container Registry

The container images that we use on application deployments to Kubernetes are stored in container repositories. Docker Hub (hub.docker.com) is a public Docker image repository. We can use it to pull public images. But what if we want a local repository where we want to store our own images? Google Cloud Platform comes with a service called Container Registry. This is essentially a single place where you can store, perform vulnerability scans on, and control access to your images. As it is hosted on GCP, it is also faster to use than Docker Hub. GKE clusters are able to access the registry that resides in the same project by default.

To run images that are stored in Container Registry, use the following command:

kubectl ...