Elastic Container Registry

About

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) - Fully managed container registry offering high-performance hosting, so you can reliably deploy application images and artifacts anywhere

• Documentation
• User Guide

Hosted private Docker registry

Alternatives

• Docker Hub
• JFrog Artifactory
• Azure Container Registry
• Harbor
• Google Container Registry
• Red Hat Quay
• JFrog Container Registry

Price

Current price

Use Cases

Store, encrypt, and manage container images

• Manage software vulnerabilities
• Streamline your deployment workloads
• Manage image lifecycle policies

Type: Containers

Same type services: Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Fargate

Practice

This commands returns the command to execute to be able to login to ECR:

• Login

  • get-login-password:aws ecr get-login-password --region region | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com

• Create a repository:

  aws ecr create-repository \
      --repository-name hello-repository \
      --image-scanning-configuration scanOnPush=true \
      --region region
  

• Tag image

  • docker tag hello-world:latest aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/hello-repository

• Push

  • docker push aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/hello-repository

• Pull

  • docker pull aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/hello-repository:latest

• Delete an image

  aws ecr batch-delete-image \
      --repository-name hello-repository \
      --image-ids imageTag=latest \
      --region region
  

• Delete a repository

  aws ecr delete-repository \
    --repository-name hello-repository \
    --force \
    --region region
  

Labs:

• Use AWS Fargate for Serverless Deployment of Container Applications
• Quick start: Publishing to Amazon ECR Public using the AWS CLI

Notes:

• If you get a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error, try again after 30 seconds to let the load balancer finish adding the task to the target group.