Pages with tag Docker Development
Installing a self-hosted Docker Registry to aid Docker image development
When developing Docker images it's useful to store them in a Docker registry. While using Docker Hub is free, it's bad form to fill up that shared resource with images built for personal use. It's better to only publish the Docker images that are truly useful to everyone, and that have documentation. That leaves us with the problem of a location to host our own Docker images. Do we pay for a private repository somewhere? Or, as a self-hoster, do we host a local Docker Registry to store our personal Docker images? In this post let's explore the latter idea.
Setting up Docker for an easy-to-configure self-hosting environment
Self-hosting is about hosting Internet services in an easy-to-manage environment. Docker is an excellent tool for managing these kind of services since it is easy to reuse software packages, and it has a fairly strong security barrier around those packages. In many cases we'll just need to install and configure the Docker container. But to ease the task we need a well organized system for managing configuration files, data directories, and other stuff associated with running several Docker containers.
